Job 3

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.	1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
2 And Job spake, and said,	2 Job spoke out and said:
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.	3 Perish the day on which I was born, the night when they said, "The child is a boy!"
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.	4 May that day be darkness: let not God above call for it, nor light shine upon it!
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.	5 May darkness and gloom claim it, clouds settle upon it, the blackness of night affright it!
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.	6 May obscurity seize that day; let it not occur among the days of the year, nor enter into the count of the months!
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.	7 May that night be barren; let no joyful outcry greet it!
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.	8 Let them curse it who curse the sea, the appointed disturbers of Leviathan!
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:	9 May the stars of its twilight be darkened; may it look for daylight, but have none, nor gaze on the eyes of the dawn,
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.	10 Because it kept not shut the doors of the womb to shield my eyes from trouble!
11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?	11 Why did I not perish at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?	12 Wherefore did the knees receive me? or why did I suck at the breasts?
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,	13 For then I should have lain down and been tranquil; had I slept, I should then have been at rest
14 With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;	14 With kings and counselors of the earth who built where now there are ruins
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:	15 Or with princes who had gold and filled their houses with silver.
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.	16 Or why was I not buried away like an untimely birth, like babes that have never seen the light?
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.	17 There the wicked cease from troubling, there the weary are at rest.
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.	18 There the captives are at ease together, and hear not the voice of the slave driver.
19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.	19 Small and great are there the same, and the servant is free from his master.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;	20 Why is light given to the toilers, and life to the bitter in spirit?
21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;	21 They wait for death and it comes not; they search for it rather than for hidden treasures,
22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?	22 Rejoice in it exultingly, and are glad when they reach the grave:
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?	23 Men whose path is hidden from them, and whom God has hemmed in!
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.	24 For sighing comes more readily to me than food, and my groans well forth like water.
25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.	25 For what I fear overtakes me, and what I shrink from comes upon me.
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.	26 I have no peace nor ease; I have no rest, for trouble comes!