Job 3:1-13 ▼

1 Afterward Iob opened his mouth, and cursed his day.

2 And Iob cryed out, and sayd,

3 Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.

4 Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,

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.

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.

7 Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it.

8 Let them that curse the day, (being readie to renue their mourning) curse it.

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,

10 Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.

11 Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?

12 Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?

13 For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,