Job Chapter 3 (ESV)

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undefined After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

undefined And Job said:

undefined “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’

undefined Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.

undefined Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

undefined That night — let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

undefined Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it.

undefined Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.

undefined Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning,

undefined because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

undefined “Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?

undefined Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

undefined For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,

undefined with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,

undefined or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

undefined Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?

undefined There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

undefined There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

undefined The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

undefined “Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

undefined who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

undefined who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?

undefined Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

undefined For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

undefined For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.

undefined I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes.”

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