Job Chapter 3 (KJV)
King James Version
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| 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 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 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 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. Why died I not from the womb? why did I 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 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 untimely 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 rest together; they 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 bitter in soul; | |
| 21. Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; | |
| 22. Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? | |
| 23. 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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