English Bible
Job 3
Big screen- 1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
- 2And Job spoke, and said,
- 3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.
- 4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
- 5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
- 6As 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.
- 7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
- 8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
- 9Let 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:
- 10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
- 11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the spirit when I came out of the belly?
- 12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
- 13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
- 14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;
- 15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
- 16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
- 17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
- 18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
- 19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
- 20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
- 21Which long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
- 22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
- 23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
- 24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
- 25For the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come unto me.
- 26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.