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Job - Chapter: 3


3:1	After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
3:2	And Job spake, and said,
3:3	Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
3:4	Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
3:5	Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
3:6	As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
3:7	Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
3:8	Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
3:9	Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
3:10	Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
3:11	Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
3:12	Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
3:13	For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
3:14	With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
3:15	Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
3:16	Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
3:17	There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
3:18	There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
3:19	The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
3:20	Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
3:21	Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
3:22	Which 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 hath hedged in?
3:24	For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
3:25	For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
3:26	I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.


3:1	Afterward Iob opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
3:2	And Iob cryed out, and sayd,
3:3	Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.
3:4	Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,
3:5	But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.
3:6	Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths.
3:7	Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it.
3:8	Let them that curse the day, (being readie to renue their mourning) curse it.
3:9	Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,
3:10	Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.
3:11	Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?
3:12	Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?
3:13	For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,
3:14	With the Kings and counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:
3:15	Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.
3:16	Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?
3:17	The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.
3:18	The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.
3:19	There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.
3:20	Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?
3:21	Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:
3:22	Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.
3:23	Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
3:24	For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.
3:25	For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afraid of, is come vnto me.
3:26	I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.


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