Job 3

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

Job answered and said, 3 “May the day on which I was born perish, and the night {that} said, ‘A boy has been conceived.’ \* 4 That day—may it be dark! May God not seek it from above, and may light not shine upon it. 5 May darkness and a dark shadow claim it; may a cloud dwell over it; may the blacknesses of the day terrify it. \* 6 That night—may gloom take it! May it not rejoice among the days of the year; into the number of the months may it not come. 7 Behold: That night—may it be barren! May a joyful shout not come into it. \* 8 May the ones cursing a day curse it, the ones skillful to awaken Leviathan. 9 May the stars of its twilight be dark; may it wait for light but {there be} none, and may it not see the eyelids of the dawn, 10 because it did not close the doors of my womb and hide trouble from my eyes. \* 11 Why did I not die from the womb, come out of the belly and expire? 12 Why did knees welcome me, and why breasts, that I should suck? \* 13 For now I had lain down and was reposing, I had slept, then it was being rest to me 14 with kings and counselors of the earth, the ones having built monuments for themselves, \* 15 or with princes, gold {having been} to them, the ones having filled their houses with silver. 16 Or, like a hidden stillborn child, I might not have been, as infants {sometimes} do not see the light. \* 17 There the wicked stop troubling, and there the weary in strength rest. 18 Captives relax together; they do not hear the voice of a taskmaster. 19 Small and great {are} there the same, and a servant {is} free from his master. \* 20 Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter in soul, 21 the ones longing for death, but {it is} not to them, and they dig for it more than for hidden treasure, 22 the ones rejoicing unto gladness, and they celebrate when they find a grave, \* 23 to a man whose way is hidden, and God has hedged around him? 24 For my sighing comes before my food, my groaning flows out like waters. \* 25 For I feared a fear and it has arrived with me; what I dreaded has come to me. 26 I have not relaxed, and I have not reposed, and I have not rested, but trouble comes.” \*