Job 3 — UBES

3Verse 1After this Job opened his mouth,
And cursed his day,^{Verse 2}
saying,
^{Verse 3}Let the day perish in which I was born,
And that night in which they said, Behold a man-child!
^{Verse 4}Let that night be darkness,
And let not the Lord regard it from above,
Neither let light come upon it.
^{Verse 5}But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it;
Let blackness come upon it;
^{Verse 6}Let that day and night be cursed,
Let darkness carry them away;
Let it not come into the days of the year,
Neither let it be numbered with the days of the months.
^{Verse 7}But let that night be pain,
And let not mirth come upon it, nor joy.
^{Verse 8}But let him that curses that day curse it,
Even he that is ready to attack the great whale.
^{Verse 9}Let the stars of that night be darkened;
Let it remain dark, and not come into light;
And let it not see the morning star arise:
^{Verse 10}Because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb,
For so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.^{Verse 11}For why died I not in the belly?
And why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?
^{Verse 12}And why did the knees support me?
And why did I suck the breasts?
^{Verse 13}Now I should have lain down and been quiet,
I should have slept and been at rest,
^{Verse 14}With kings and counselors of the earth,
Who gloried in their swords;
^{Verse 15}Or with rulers, whose gold was abundant,
Who filled their houses with silver:
^{Verse 16}Or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb,
Or as infants who never saw light.
^{Verse 17}There the ungodly have burned out the fury of rage;
There the wearied in body rest.
^{Verse 18}And the men of old time have together
Ceased to hear the exactor’s voice.
^{Verse 19}The small and great are there,
And the servant that feared his lord.^{Verse 20}For why is light given to those who are in bitterness,
And life to the souls which are in griefs?
^{Verse 21}Who desire death, and obtain it not,
Digging for it as for treasures;
^{Verse 22}And would be very joyful if they should gain it?
^{Verse 23}Death is rest to such a man,
For God has hedged him in.
^{Verse 24}For my groaning comes before my food,
And I weep being beset with terror.
^{Verse 25}For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me,
And that which I had feared has befallen me.
^{Verse 26}I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest;
Yet wrath came upon me.