Job 3

^{Job 3:1} After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

^{Job 3:2} And this is what he said:

^{Job 3:3} “May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

^{Job 3:4} If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.

^{Job 3:5} May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.

^{Job 3:6} If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.

^{Job 3:7} Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.

^{Job 3:8} May it be cursed by those who curse the day — those prepared to rouse Leviathan.

^{Job 3:9} May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.

^{Job 3:10} For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.

^{Job 3:11} Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?

^{Job 3:12} Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

^{Job 3:13} For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

^{Job 3:14} with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,

^{Job 3:15} or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

^{Job 3:16} Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

^{Job 3:17} There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.

^{Job 3:18} The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

^{Job 3:19} Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.

^{Job 3:20} Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

^{Job 3:21} who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,

^{Job 3:22} who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

^{Job 3:23} Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

^{Job 3:24} I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

^{Job 3:25} For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

^{Job 3:26} I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”