Job Chapter 3

• Job 3:1
  Job.
• Job 3:2
  After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
• Job 3:3
  Job answered:
• Job 3:4
  “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
• Job 3:5
  Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
• Job 3:6
  Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
• Job 3:7
  As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
• Job 3:8
  Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
• Job 3:9
  Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
• Job 3:10
  Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
• Job 3:11
  because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
• Job 3:12
  “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
• Job 3:13
  Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
• Job 3:14
  For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
• Job 3:15
  with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
• Job 3:16
  or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
• Job 3:17
  or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
• Job 3:18
  There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
• Job 3:19
  There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
• Job 3:20
  The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
• Job 3:21
  “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
• Job 3:22
  who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
• Job 3:23
  who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
• Job 3:24
  Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
• Job 3:25
  For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
• Job 3:26
  For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
• Job 3:27
  I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”