Job 3 — ILT
3Verse 1After this time Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.Verse 2And Job commenced, and said,Verse 3Oh that the day whereon I was born might perish, and the night when it was said, There hath been a male child conceived.Verse 4May that day be [covered with] darkness; may not God from above inquire for it, and may no light beam upon it.Verse 5Oh that darkness and the shadow of death might defile it; may a cloud rest upon it; may the blackness of the day terrify it.Verse 6Yon night — let darkness seize upon it; let it not be united to the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the [periods lighted by the] moon.Verse 7Lo, may that night be solitary, let no song of joy occur thereon.Verse 8Let those denounce it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning cry.Verse 9Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; let it hope for light, and there be none; and let it not behold the eyelids of the morning-dawn;Verse 10Because God closed not against me the doors of the womb, and thus concealed trouble from my eyes.Verse 11Why did I not die [the moment I issued] from the womb, and [why] was I not born merely to perish at once?Verse 12Wherefore were knees ready to receive me? and for what purpose were breasts there that I might suck?Verse 13For now should I be lying still and be quiet; I should sleep: then would I be at rest,Verse 14With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build up ruined places for themselves;Verse 15Or with princes possessing gold, who fill their houses with silver;Verse 16Or as an untimely birth, hidden [from view] I should not exist; as infants that never have seen the light;Verse 17There [where] the wicked cease from troubling; and where the exhausted weary are at rest;Verse 18[Where] the prisoners repose together, [and] they hear no more the taskmaster's voice.Verse 19The small with the great is there, and the servant free from his master.Verse 20Wherefore giveth He now light to the labor-laden, and life unto the bitter in soul?Verse 21Who wait for death, which [cometh] not; and who dig for it sooner than for hidden treasures;Verse 22Who would rejoice even to exulting, who would be glad could they but find a grave?Verse 23[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hidden, and around whom God hath placed a fence?Verse 24For before my food cometh my groaning, and like the water are poured forth my loud complaints.Verse 25Because what I greatly dreaded is come upon me, and what I apprehended is come unto me.Verse 26I have had no safety, and no quiet, and no rest; and [now] harrowing trouble is come.