Job 3

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.	1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 Job spoke out and said:	2 And Job spake, and said,
3 Perish the day on which I was born, the night when they said, "The child is a boy!"	3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4 May that day be darkness: let not God above call for it, nor light shine upon it!	4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 May darkness and gloom claim it, clouds settle upon it, the blackness of night affright 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.
6 May obscurity seize that day; let it not occur among the days of the year, nor enter into the count of the months!	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.
7 May that night be barren; let no joyful outcry greet it!	7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it who curse the sea, the appointed disturbers of Leviathan!	8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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,	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:
10 Because it kept not shut the doors of the womb to shield my eyes from trouble!	10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11 Why did I not perish at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?	11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12 Wherefore did the knees receive me? or why did I suck at the breasts?	12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13 For then I should have lain down and been tranquil; had I slept, I should then have been at rest	13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14 With kings and counselors of the earth who built where now there are ruins	14 With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15 Or with princes who had gold and filled their houses with silver.	15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16 Or why was I not buried away like an untimely birth, like babes that have never seen the light?	16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling, there the weary are at rest.	17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18 There the captives are at ease together, and hear not the voice of the slave driver.	18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19 Small and great are there the same, and the servant is free from his master.	19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20 Why is light given to the toilers, and life to the bitter in spirit?	20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
21 They wait for death and it comes not; they search for it rather than for hidden treasures,	21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22 Rejoice in it exultingly, and are glad when they reach the grave:	22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 Men whose path is hidden from them, and whom God has hemmed in!	23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24 For sighing comes more readily to me than food, and my groans well forth like water.	24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25 For what I fear overtakes me, and what I shrink from comes upon me.	25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
26 I have no peace nor ease; I have no rest, for trouble comes!	26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.