Job 3 — DBY

3Verse 1After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.^{Verse 2}And Job answered and said,^{Verse 3}Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.^{Verse 4}That day — let it be darkness, let not⁺God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:^{Verse 5}Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.^{Verse 6}That night — let gloom 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}Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;^{Verse 8}Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;^{Verse 9}Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:^{Verse 10}Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.^{Verse 11}Wherefore did I not die from the womb, — come forth from the belly and expire?^{Verse 12}Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore 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 build desolate places for themselves,^{Verse 15}Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;^{Verse 16}Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.^{Verse 17}There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.^{Verse 18}The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.^{Verse 19}The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.^{Verse 20}Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,^{Verse 21}Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;^{Verse 22}Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? —^{Verse 23}To the man whose way is hidden, and whom⁺God hath hedged in?^{Verse 24}For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.^{Verse 25}For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.^{Verse 26}I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.