Job 3 — GNV
3Verse 1Afterward Iob opened his mouth, and cursed his day.Verse 2And Iob cryed out, and sayd,Verse 3Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.Verse 4Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,Verse 5But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.Verse 6Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths.Verse 7Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it.Verse 8Let them that curse the day, (being readie to renue their mourning) curse it.Verse 9Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,Verse 10Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.Verse 11Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?Verse 12Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?Verse 13For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,Verse 14With the Kings and counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:Verse 15Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.Verse 16Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?Verse 17The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.Verse 18The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.Verse 19There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.Verse 20Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?Verse 21Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:Verse 22Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.Verse 23Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?Verse 24For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.Verse 25For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afraid of, is come vnto me.Verse 26I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.