Job 3
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| v | JPS1917 |
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| 1 | After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. |
| 2 | And Job spoke, and said: |
| 3 | Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night wherein it was said: ‘A man-child is brought forth.’ |
| 4 | Let that day be darkness; Let not God inquire after it from above, Neither let the light shine upon it. |
| 5 | Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it. |
| 6 | As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it; Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months. |
| 7 | Lo, let that night be desolate; Let no joyful voice come therein. |
| 8 | Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan. |
| 9 | Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning; |
| 10 | Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes. |
| 11 | Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth? |
| 12 | Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck? |
| 13 | For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest— |
| 14 | With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves; |
| 15 | Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver; |
| 16 | Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; As infants that never saw light. |
| 17 | There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. |
| 18 | There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster. |
| 19 | The small and great are there alike; And the servant is free from his master. |
| 20 | Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul— |
| 21 | Who long for death, but it cometh not; And dig for it more than for hid treasures; |
| 22 | Who rejoice unto exultation, And are glad, when they can find the grave?— |
| 23 | To a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in? |
| 24 | For my sighing cometh instead of my food, And my roarings are poured out like water. |
| 25 | For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, And that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me. |
| 26 | I was not at ease, neither was I quiet, Neither had I rest; but trouble came. |