Job 3

  1. After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 🔗
  2. And Job spake, and said, 🔗
  3. Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 🔗
  4. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 🔗
  5. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 🔗
  6. As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. 🔗
  7. Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. 🔗
  8. Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. 🔗
  9. Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: 🔗
  10. Because it shut not up the doors of my mother2019s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. 🔗
  11. Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 🔗
  12. Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 🔗
  13. For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 🔗
  14. With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 🔗
  15. Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 🔗
  16. Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. 🔗
  17. There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. 🔗
  18. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 🔗
  19. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. 🔗
  20. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 🔗
  21. Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 🔗
  22. Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 🔗
  23. Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 🔗
  24. For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. 🔗
  25. For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. 🔗
  26. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. 🔗

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