Job 3 — NWB
3Verse 1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.Verse 2And Job spoke, and said,Verse 3Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.Verse 4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.Verse 5Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.Verse 6As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.Verse 7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.Verse 8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.Verse 9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:Verse 10Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.Verse 11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?Verse 12Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?Verse 13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,Verse 14With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;Verse 15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:Verse 16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.Verse 17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.Verse 18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.Verse 19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.Verse 20Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;Verse 21Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;Verse 22Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?Verse 23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?Verse 24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.Verse 25For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.Verse 26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.