The Book of Job

Chapter-3

Job 3:1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day,

 

Job 3:2 and this is what he said:

 

Job 3:3 May the day perish on which I was born, and the night, in which it was said, “A man has been conceived.”

 

Job 3:4 May that day be turned into darkness, may God not seek it from above, and may light not illuminate it.

 

Job 3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death obscure it, let a fog overtake it, and let it be enveloped in bitterness.

 

Job 3:6 Let a whirlwind of darkness take hold of that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.

 

Job 3:7 May that night be alone and unworthy of praise.

 

Job 3:8 May they curse it, who curse the day, who are prepared to awaken a leviathan.

 

Job 3:9 Let the stars be concealed with its darkness. Let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawn in the East.

 

Job 3:10 For it did not close the doors of the womb that bore me, nor take away evils from my eyes.

 

Job 3:11 Why did I not die in the womb? Having left the womb, why did I not immediately perish?

 

Job 3:12 Why was I received upon the knees? Why was I suckled at the breasts?

 

Job 3:13 For by now, I should have been sleeping silently, and taking rest in my sleep

 

Job 3:14 with the kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes,

 

Job 3:15 either with princes, who possess gold and fill their houses with silver,

 

Job 3:16 or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not have continued, just like those who, being conceived, have not seen the light.

 

Job 3:17 There the impious cease from rebellion, and there the wearied in strength take rest.

 

Job 3:18 And at such times, having been bound together without difficulty, they have not heard the voice of the bailiff.

 

Job 3:19 The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.

 

Job 3:20 Why is light given to the miserable, and life to those who are in bitterness of soul,

 

Job 3:21 who expect death, and it does not arrive, like those who dig for treasure

 

Job 3:22 and who rejoice greatly when they have found the grave,

 

Job 3:23 to a man whose way is hidden and whom God has surrounded with darkness?

 

Job 3:24 Before I eat, I sigh; and like overflowing waters, so is my howl,

 

Job 3:25 for the terror that I feared has happened to me, and so has the dread befallen me.

 

Job 3:26 Have I not remained hidden? Have I not kept silence? Have I not remained calm? Yet indignation has overcome me.