(KJV) Job 3¹

⥃Job Laments His Birth

[1] After² this opened³ Job his mouth, and cursed⁴ his day⁵. [2] And Job spake⁶, and said, [3] Let the day⁷ perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived. [4] Let that day be darkness⁸; let not God regard⁹ it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. [5] Let darkness and the shadow¹⁰ of death stain it¹¹; let a cloud¹² dwell upon it; let the blackness¹³ of the day terrify it. [6] [As for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days¹⁴ of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. [7] Lo, let that night be solitary¹⁵, let no joyful voice come therein. [8] Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready¹⁶ to raise up their mourning¹⁷. [9] Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light¹⁸, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day¹⁹: [10] Because it shut not²⁰ up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, nor hid²¹ sorrow from mine eyes. [11] Why died I²² not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came²³ out of the belly? [12] Why did the knees²⁴ prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? [13] For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest²⁵, [14] With kings²⁶ and counsellors of the earth, which built²⁷ desolate places for themselves; [15] Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses²⁸ with silver: [16] Or as an hidden²⁹ untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light. [17] There the wicked³⁰ cease [from] troubling; and there the weary³¹ be at rest³². [18] [There] the prisoners rest together; they³³ hear not the voice of the oppressor. [19] The small³⁴ and great are there; and the servant³⁵ [is] free from his master. [20] Wherefore³⁶ is light³⁷ given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter³⁸ [in] soul; [21] Which long³⁹ for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig⁴⁰ for it more than for hid treasures; [22] Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave? [23] [Why is light given] to a man whose way⁴¹ is hid, and whom God hath hedged in⁴²? [24] For my sighing⁴³ cometh before I eat⁴⁴, and my roarings⁴⁵ are poured out like the waters. [25] For the thing⁴⁶ which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. [26] I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came⁴⁷.