| |
Darby Bible |   | |
 |
| |
| | Job 3:1 | After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
| |
| | Job 3:2 | And Job answered and said,
| |
| | Job 3:3 | Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
| |
| | Job 3:4 | That day -- let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:
| |
| | Job 3:5 | Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
| |
| | Job 3:6 | 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.
| |
| | Job 3:7 | Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;
| |
| | Job 3:8 | Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
| |
| | Job 3:9 | 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:
| |
| | Job 3:10 | Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
| |
| | Job 3:11 | Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -- come forth from the belly and expire?
| |
| | Job 3:12 | Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
| |
| | Job 3:13 | For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
| |
| | Job 3:14 | With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,
| |
| | Job 3:15 | Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
| |
| | Job 3:16 | Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
| |
| | Job 3:17 | There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
| |
| | Job 3:18 | The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
| |
| | Job 3:19 | The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.
| |
| | Job 3:20 | Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
| |
| | Job 3:21 | Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
| |
| | Job 3:22 | Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? --
| |
| | Job 3:23 | To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?
| |
| | Job 3:24 | For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
| |
| | Job 3:25 | For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
| |
| | Job 3:26 | I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.
| |
