Job 3:1 (ASV)
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

Job 3:2 (ASV)
And Job answered and said:

Job 3:3 (ASV)
Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

Job 3:4 (ASV)
Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

Job 3:5 (ASV)
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.

Job 3:6 (ASV)
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.

Job 3:7 (ASV)
Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.

Job 3:8 (ASV)
Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

Job 3:9 (ASV)
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:

Job 3:10 (ASV)
Because it shut not up the doors of my `mother's' womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

Job 3:11 (ASV)
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

Job 3:12 (ASV)
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

Job 3:13 (ASV)
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

Job 3:14 (ASV)
With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

Job 3:15 (ASV)
Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:

Job 3:16 (ASV)
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

Job 3:17 (ASV)
There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

Job 3:18 (ASV)
There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

Job 3:19 (ASV)
The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.

Job 3:20 (ASV)
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;

Job 3:21 (ASV)
Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

Job 3:22 (ASV)
Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?

Job 3:23 (ASV)
`Why is light given' to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

Job 3:24 (ASV)
For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

Job 3:25 (ASV)
For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.

Job 3:26 (ASV)
I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.
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