JOB 3
1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 And Job answered and said:
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which 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 claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
6 As 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.
7 Lo, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Let 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:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid trouble 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 receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?
13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest:
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built up waste 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 are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
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 water.
25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, and that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble cometh.
Cross-references
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- 1Jer 20:14–15, Psa 106:33, Psa 39:2–3, Job 35:16, Job 3:3, Job 2:5, Job 1:22, Job 2:9–10
- 3Jer 15:10, Jer 20:14–18, Job 10:18–19
- 4Jol 2:2, Exo 10:22–23, Rev 16:10, Amo 5:18, Mat 27:45, Act 27:20, Deu 11:12
- 5Job 10:21–22, Job 28:3, Psa 23:4, Jer 2:6, Psa 107:10, Jer 4:28, Psa 107:14, Jer 13:16
- 7Isa 13:20–22, Isa 24:8, Jer 7:34, Rev 18:22–23
- 8Job 41:1, Job 41:10, Mrk 5:38, Mat 11:17, 2Ch 35:25, Jer 9:17–18, Job 41:25, Amo 5:16
- 9Job 41:18, Job 30:26, Jer 8:15, Jer 13:16
- 10Ecc 6:3–5, Gen 20:18, Jer 20:17, Job 23:2, 1Sa 1:5, Ecc 11:10, Job 6:2–3, Job 10:1
- 11Job 10:18–19, Isa 46:3, Psa 58:8, Psa 22:9–10, Hos 9:14, Psa 139:13–16, Psa 71:6, Jer 15:10
- 12Isa 66:12, Gen 30:3, Gen 50:23, Ezk 16:4–5
- 13Job 21:13, Job 14:10–12, Ecc 9:10, Job 10:22, Job 7:21, Ecc 6:3–5, Job 7:8–10, Job 19:27
- 14Job 15:28, Isa 14:10–16, Psa 89:48, Psa 49:14, Job 12:17, Ezk 27:18–32, Ezk 26:20, Psa 49:6–10
- 15Job 22:25, 1Ki 10:27, Zep 1:18, Num 22:18, Zec 9:3, Isa 2:7, Job 12:21, Job 27:16–17
- 16Psa 58:8, Ecc 6:3, 1Co 15:8
- 17Rev 14:13, Job 17:16, Isa 57:1–2, Heb 4:11, Heb 4:9, Job 14:13, Mat 10:28, 2Th 1:6–7
- 18Job 39:7, Jdg 4:3, Exo 5:15–19, Isa 14:3–4, Exo 5:6–8
- 19Job 30:23, Ecc 12:7, Ecc 8:8, Psa 49:2, Heb 9:27, Psa 49:14–20, Ecc 12:5, Luk 16:22–23
- 20Jer 20:18, Job 7:15–16, Pro 31:6, 1Sa 1:10, Job 33:30, 2Ki 4:27, Job 3:16, Job 6:9
- 21Rev 9:6, Pro 2:4, Jon 4:3, Num 11:15, Jon 4:8, 1Ki 19:4
- 23Job 19:8, Lam 3:7, Isa 40:27, Hos 2:6, Job 19:12, Job 12:14, Psa 31:8, Lam 3:9
- 24Psa 102:9, Psa 42:3–4, Psa 80:5, Psa 38:8, Psa 32:3, Job 33:20, Job 7:19, Isa 59:11
- 25Job 1:5, Job 30:15, Job 31:23
- 26Job 7:14, Psa 143:11, Job 27:9