Job - Chapter 3 | American Standard Version

  • 1. After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
  • 2. And Job answered and said:
  • 3. Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
  • 4. Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.
  • 5. Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
  • 6. As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.
  • 7. Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
  • 8. Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
  • 9. Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
  • 10. Because it shut not up the doors of my {cf15i mother's} womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
  • 11. Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
  • 12. Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
  • 13. For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
  • 14. With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
  • 15. Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:
  • 16. Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
  • 17. There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
  • 18. There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
  • 19. The small and the 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. Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
  • 22. Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?
  • 23. {cf15i 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 groanings are poured out like water.
  • 25. For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
  • 26. I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.
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