1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. ERV — Job 3:1
2 And Job answered and said: ERV — Job 3:2
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, There is a man child conceived. ERV — Job 3:3
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. ERV — Job 3:4
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it. ERV — Job 3:5
6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. ERV — Job 3:6
7 Lo, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice come therein. ERV — Job 3:7
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. ERV — Job 3:8
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning: ERV — Job 3:9
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes. ERV — Job 3:10
11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? ERV — Job 3:11
12 Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck? ERV — Job 3:12
13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest: ERV — Job 3:13
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built up waste places for themselves; ERV — Job 3:14
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: ERV — Job 3:15
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. ERV — Job 3:16
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. ERV — Job 3:17
18 There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. ERV — Job 3:18
19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. ERV — Job 3:19
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; ERV — Job 3:20
21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; ERV — Job 3:21
22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? ERV — Job 3:22
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? ERV — Job 3:23
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like water. ERV — Job 3:24
25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, and that which I am afraid of cometh unto me. ERV — Job 3:25
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble cometh. ERV — Job 3:26