Job

3 1 AFTER this ^aopened Job his mouth, and ^bcursed his day.

2 And Job ¹spake, and said,

3 ^cLet 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 ^ddarkness; let not ^eGod regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

5 Let darkness and the ^fshadow of death ²stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; ³let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; ⁴let 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 ^gsolitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

8 Let them curse it ^hthat curse the day, who are ready to raise up ⁵their mourning.

9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it ⁱlook for light, but have none; neither let it see ⁶the dawning of the day:

10 Because it ^jshut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid ^ksorrow from mine eyes.

11 Why ^ldied I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12 Why ^mdid the knees ^*prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

13 For now should ⁿI have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14 ^oWith kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

15 Or with princes that had gold, who ^pfilled their houses with silver:

16 Or ^qas an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

17 There the ^rwicked cease from troubling; and there the ⁷weary be at rest.

18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the ^soppressor.

19 The ^tsmall and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

20 Wherefore is ^ulight given to him that is in misery, and life unto the ^vbitter in soul;

21 ^wWhich ⁸long 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 ^xwhose way is hid, and ^ywhom God hath ^zhedged in?

24 For ^amy sighing cometh ⁹before I eat, and ^bmy roarings are poured out like the waters.

25 For ¹⁰the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

26 ^cI was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.