^3:1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. ^3:2 And Job answered and said, ^3:3 Let the day perish in which I was born and the night which said, There is a male-child conceived.

    ^3:4 Let that day be darkness. Do not let God from above seek for it, nor let the light shine upon it. ^3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it. ^3:6 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.^3:7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come in it.

    ^3:8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. ^3:9 Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, nor let it behold the eyelids of the morning. ^3:10Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

    ^3:11 Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me? ^3:12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

    ^3:13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest ^3:14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built waste places for themselves, ^3:15 or with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

    ^3:16 Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light. ^3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary are at rest. ^3:18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. ^3:19 The small and the great are there. And the servant is free from his master.

    ^3:20 Why is light given to him who is in misery and life to the bitter in soul, ^3:21 who long for death, but it does not come and dig for it more than for hid treasures, ^3:22 who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave? ^3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid and whom God has hedged in?

    ^3:24 For my sighing comes before I eat and my groanings are poured out like water. ^3:25 For the thing which I fear comes upon me and what I am afraid of comes to me. ^3:26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, neither have I rest, but trouble comes.