1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. WEB — Job 3:1
2 Job answered: WEB — Job 3:2
3 “Let the day perish in which I was born, The night which said, ‘There is a man-child conceived.’ WEB — Job 3:3
4 Let that day be darkness; Don't let God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine on it. WEB — Job 3:4
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it. WEB — Job 3:5
6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. WEB — Job 3:6
7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. WEB — Job 3:7
8 Let them curse it who curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan. WEB — Job 3:8
9 Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning, WEB — Job 3:9
10 Because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. WEB — Job 3:10
11 “Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? WEB — Job 3:11
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? WEB — Job 3:12
13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, WEB — Job 3:13
14 With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves; WEB — Job 3:14
15 Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver: WEB — Job 3:15
16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light. WEB — Job 3:16
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest. WEB — Job 3:17
18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster. WEB — Job 3:18
19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master. WEB — Job 3:19
20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul, WEB — Job 3:20
21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures, WEB — Job 3:21
22 Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave? WEB — Job 3:22
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in? WEB — Job 3:23
24 For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water. WEB — Job 3:24
25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me. WEB — Job 3:25
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble comes.” WEB — Job 3:26