Job 3 — KJV

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