Job 3:1 (WEB)
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

Job 3:2 (WEB)
Job answered:

Job 3:3 (WEB)
"Let the day perish in which I was born, The night which said, 'There is a man-child conceived.'

Job 3:4 (WEB)
Let that day be darkness; Don't let God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine on it.

Job 3:5 (WEB)
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

Job 3:6 (WEB)
As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

Job 3:7 (WEB)
Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

Job 3:8 (WEB)
Let them curse it who curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

Job 3:9 (WEB)
Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

Job 3:10 (WEB)
Because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Job 3:11 (WEB)
"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Job 3:12 (WEB)
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

Job 3:13 (WEB)
For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

Job 3:14 (WEB)
With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

Job 3:15 (WEB)
Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:

Job 3:16 (WEB)
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light.

Job 3:17 (WEB)
There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest.

Job 3:18 (WEB)
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.

Job 3:19 (WEB)
The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

Job 3:20 (WEB)
"Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul,

Job 3:21 (WEB)
Who long for death, but it doesn't come; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Job 3:22 (WEB)
Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave?

Job 3:23 (WEB)
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in?

Job 3:24 (WEB)
For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.

Job 3:25 (WEB)
For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

Job 3:26 (WEB)
I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble comes."
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