Job 3

1After this, Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,● 2And he said:● 3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.● 4Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.● 5Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.● 6Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.● 7Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.● 8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:● 9Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:● 10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.● 11Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?● 12Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?● 13For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:● 14With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:● 15Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with silver:● 16Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light.● 17There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.● 18And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.● 19The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.● 20Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?● 21That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:● 22And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave?● 23To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?● 24Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:● 25For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.● 26Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.●