Job Chapter 3 Darby English Bible

Job 3:1

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

Job 3:2

And Job answered and said,

Job 3:3

Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.

Job 3:4

That day -- let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:

Job 3:5

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.

Job 3:6

That night -- let gloom 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

Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;

Job 3:8

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;

Job 3:9

Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

Job 3:10

Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

Job 3:11

Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -- come forth from the belly and expire?

Job 3:12

Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

Job 3:13

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

Job 3:14

With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,

Job 3:15

Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

Job 3:16

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

Job 3:17

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.

Job 3:18

The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

Job 3:19

The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.

Job 3:20

Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

Job 3:21

Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

Job 3:22

Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? --

Job 3:23

To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?

Job 3:24

For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

Job 3:25

For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.

Job 3:26

I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.