The Book of Job

3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. ^3:2And Job answered and said:

 ^3:3Let the day perish wherein I was born,

 And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

 ^3:4Let that day be darkness;

 Let not God from above seek for it,

 Neither let the light shine upon it.

 ^3:5Let 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.

 ^3:6As 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.

 ^3:7Lo, let that night be barren;

 Let no joyful voice come therein.

 ^3:8Let them curse it that curse the day,

 Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

 ^3:9Let 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:

 ^3:10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb,

 Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

 ^3:11Why died I not from the womb?

 Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

 ^3:12Why did the knees receive me?

 Or why the breast, that I should suck?

 ^3:13For now should I have lain down and been quiet;

 I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

 ^3:14With kings and counsellors of the earth,

 Who built up waste places for themselves;

 ^3:15Or with princes that had gold,

 Who filled their houses with silver:

 ^3:16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,

 As infants that never saw light.

 ^3:17There the wicked cease from troubling;

 And there the weary are at rest.

 ^3:18There the prisoners are at ease together;

 They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

 ^3:19The small and the great are there:

 And the servant is free from his master.

 ^3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,

 And life unto the bitter in soul;

 ^3:21Who long for death, but it cometh not,

 And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

 ^3:22Who rejoice exceedingly,

 And are glad, when they can find the grave?

 ^3:23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid,

 And whom God hath hedged in?

 ^3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat,

 And my groanings are poured out like water.

 ^3:25For the thing which I fear cometh upon me,

 And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.

 ^3:26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;

 But trouble cometh.