3 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job †spake, and said,

3  aLet 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 darkness;

Let not God regard it from above,

Neither let the light shine upon it.

5  Let darkness and bthe shadow of death c||stain it;

Let a cloud dwell upon it;

||Let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6  As 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 dsolitary,

Let no ejoyful 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 have none;

Neither let it see †the dawning of the day:

10  Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,

Nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11  fWhy died I not from the womb?

Why did I gnot give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12  Why did hthe 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 counsellers 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 iuntimely birth I had not been;

As infants which never saw light.

17  There the wicked cease from troubling;

And there the †weary be at rest.

18  There the prisoners jrest together;

kThey hear not the voice of the oppressor.

19  The small and 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 lbitter in soul;

21  Which †mlong for death, but it cometh not;

And dig for it more than for nhid treasures;

22  Which rejoice oexceedingly,

And are glad, when they can find the grave?

23  pWhy is light given to a man qwhose way is hid,

And rwhom 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.