Job - Chapter 3 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I have} none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
  • 10. Because it shut not up the doors of my {cf15I mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
  • 11. Why died I not from the womb? {cf15I why} did I {cf15I 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 {cf15I which} never saw light.
  • 17. There the wicked cease {cf15I from} troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
  • 18. {cf15I There} the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
  • 19. The small and great are there; and the servant {cf15I is} free from his master.
  • 20. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter {cf15I in} soul;
  • 21. Which long for death, but it {cf15I cometh} not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
  • 22. Which rejoice exceedingly, {cf15I 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 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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