Job 3 — ASV

3Verse 1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.^{Verse 2}And Job answered and said:
^{Verse 3}Let the day perish wherein I was born,
And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
^{Verse 4}Let that day be darkness;
Let not God from above seek for it,
Neither let the light shine upon it.
^{Verse 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.
^{Verse 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.
^{Verse 7}Lo, let that night be barren;
Let no joyful voice come therein.
^{Verse 8}Let them curse it that curse the day,
Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
^{Verse 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:
^{Verse 10}Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
^{Verse 11}Why died I not from the womb?
Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
^{Verse 12}Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
^{Verse 13}For now should I have lain down and been quiet;
I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
^{Verse 14}With kings and counsellors of the earth,
Who built up waste places for themselves;
^{Verse 15}Or with princes that had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver:
^{Verse 16}Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
As infants that never saw light.
^{Verse 17}There the wicked cease from troubling;
And there the weary are at rest.
^{Verse 18}There the prisoners are at ease together;
They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
^{Verse 19}The small and the great are there:
And the servant is free from his master.^{Verse 20}Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,
And life unto the bitter in soul;
^{Verse 21}Who long for death, but it cometh not,
And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
^{Verse 22}Who rejoice exceedingly,
And are glad, when they can find the grave?
^{Verse 23}Why is light given to a man whose way is hid,
And whom God hath hedged in?
^{Verse 24}For my sighing cometh before I eat,
And my groanings are poured out like water.
^{Verse 25}For the thing which I fear cometh upon me,
And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
^{Verse 26}I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;
But trouble cometh.