Chapter 3

¹ After this Job opened his mouth,

Job 3:1

² saying,

Job 3:2

³ Let the day perish in which I was born,

Job 3:3

⁴ Let that night be darkness,

Job 3:4

⁵ But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it;

Job 3:5

⁶ Let that day and night be cursed,

Job 3:6

⁷ But let that night be pain,

Job 3:7

⁸ But let him that curses that day curse it,

Job 3:8

⁹ Let the stars of that night be darkened;

Job 3:9

¹⁰ Because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb,

Job 3:10

¹¹ For why died I not in the belly?

Job 3:11

¹² And why did the knees support me?

Job 3:12

¹³ Now I should have lain down and been quiet,

Job 3:13

¹⁴ With kings [and] counselors of the earth,

Job 3:14

¹⁵ Or with rulers, whose gold was abundant,

Job 3:15

¹⁶ Or [I should have been] as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb,

Job 3:16

¹⁷ There the ungodly have burned out the fury of rage;

Job 3:17

¹⁸ And the men of old time have together

Job 3:18

¹⁹ The small and great are there,

Job 3:19

²⁰ For why is light given to those who are in bitterness,

Job 3:20

²¹ Who desire death, and obtain it not,

Job 3:21

²² And would be very joyful if they should gain it?

Job 3:22

²³ Death [is] rest to [such] a man,

Job 3:23

²⁴ For my groaning comes before my food,

Job 3:24

²⁵ For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me,

Job 3:25

²⁶ I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest;

Job 3:26