Job 3

1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,

Afterward Iob opened his mouth, and cursed his day.

2 saying,

And Iob cryed out, and sayd,

3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a boy!

Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.

4 Let that night be darkness, and let not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it.

Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,

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

But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.

6 let that day and night be cursed, let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year, neither let it be numbered with the days of the months.

Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths.

7 But let that night be pain, and let not mirth come upon it, nor joy.

Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it.

8 But let him that curses that day curse it, [even] he that is ready to attack the great whale.

Let them that curse the day, (being readie to renue their mourning) curse it.

9 Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain [dark], and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise:

Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,

10 because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for [so] it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.

Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.

11 For why died I not in the belly? and [why] did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?

Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?

12 and why did the knees support me? and why did I suck the breasts?

Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?

13 Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,

For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,

14 with kings [and] councillors of the earth, who gloried in [their] swords;

With the Kings and counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:

15 or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver:

Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.

16 or [I should have been] as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.

Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

17 There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest.

The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.

18 And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice.

The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.

19 The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord.

There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.

20 For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs?

Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?

21 who desire death, and obtain it not, digging [for it] as [for] treasures;

Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:

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

Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.

23 Death [is] rest to [such] a man, for God has hedged him in.

Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

24 For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror.

For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.

25 For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.

For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afraid of, is come vnto me.

26 I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.

I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.