Job 3
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| 1 | After this, opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his day. |
| 2 | And Iob spake, and said, |
| 3 | Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-childe conceiued. |
| 4 | Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regard it from aboue, neither let the light shine vpon it. |
| 5 | Let darkenes and the shadowe of death staine it, let a cloud dwell vpon it, let the blacknes of the day terrifie it. |
| 6 | As for that night, let darkenesse seaze vpon it, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, let it not come into the number of the moneths. |
| 7 | Loe, let that night be solitarie, let no ioyfull voice come therein. |
| 8 | Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise vp their mourning. |
| 9 | Let the starres of the twilight thereof be darke, let it looke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day: |
| 10 | Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hid sorrowe from mine eyes. |
| 11 | Why died I not from the wombe? why did I not giue vp the ghost when I came out of the bellie? |
| 12 | Why did the knees preuent mee? or why the breasts, that I should sucke? |
| 13 | For now should I haue lien still and beene quiet, I should haue slept; then had I bene at rest, |
| 14 | With Kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselues, |
| 15 | Or with Princes that had golde, who filled their houses with siluer: |
| 16 | Or as an hidden vntimely birth, I had not bene; as infants which neuer saw light. |
| 17 | There the wicked cease from troubling: and there the wearie be at rest. |
| 18 | There the prisoners rest together, they heare not the voice of the oppressour. |
| 19 | The small and great are there, and the seruant is free from his master. |
| 20 | Wherefore is light giuen to him that is in misery, and life vnto the bitter in soule? |
| 21 | Which long for death, but it commeth not, and dig for it more then for hid treasures: |
| 22 | Which reioice exceedingly, and are glad when they can finde the graue? |
| 23 | Why is light giuen to a man, whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? |
| 24 | For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters. |
| 25 | For the thing which I greatly feared is come vpon me, and that which I was afraid of, is come vnto me. |
| 26 | I was not in safetie, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet: yet trouble came. |