Job 3:1-13 ▼

1 After this opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his day,

2 And Iob aunswered, and sayde:

3 Let the day perishe wherin I was borne, and the night in the whiche it was sayd, There is a man childe conceaued.

4 The same day be turned to darknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, neither let the light shyne vpon it:

5 But let it be stayned with darknesse and the shadowe of death, let the dimme cloude fall vpon it, whiche may make it terrible as a most bitter day.

6 Let the darke storme ouercome that night, and let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yere, nor counted in the number of the monethes.

7 Desolate be that night, and without gladnesse.

8 Let them that curse the day, and that be redy to rayse vp mourning, geue it also their curse.

9 Let the starres of that night be dimme thorowe darkenesse of it, let it loke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day:

10 Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hyd sorowe from myne eyes.

11 Alas why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe?

12 Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes?

13 Then should I nowe haue lyen stil, I shoulde haue slept, and ben at rest,