Job 3

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

2 Job answered:NHEB — Job 3:2

3 "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'A man is conceived.'NHEB — Job 3:3

4 Let that day be darkness. May God above not care about it, neither let the light shine on it.NHEB — Job 3:4

5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let the blackness of the day terrify it.NHEB — 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.NHEB — Job 3:6

7 Look, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come in it.NHEB — Job 3:7

8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.NHEB — Job 3:8

9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,NHEB — Job 3:9

10 because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.NHEB — Job 3:10

11 "Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?NHEB — Job 3:11

12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?NHEB — 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,NHEB — Job 3:13

14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;NHEB — Job 3:14

15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:NHEB — Job 3:15

16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.NHEB — Job 3:16

17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.NHEB — Job 3:17

18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.NHEB — Job 3:18

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

20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,NHEB — Job 3:20

21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,NHEB — Job 3:21

22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?NHEB — Job 3:22

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?NHEB — Job 3:23

24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.NHEB — Job 3:24

25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.NHEB — Job 3:25

26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."NHEB — Job 3:26