| 3:1 | After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day. |
| 3:2 | And Job spoke, and said, |
| 3:3 | Let the day perish when 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 to 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 in it. |
| 3:8 | Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. |
| 3:9 | Let the stars of its twilight 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 my eyes. |
| 3:11 | Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the womb? |
| 3:12 | Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed? |
| 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, who 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 are 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 | Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter [in] soul; |
| 3:21 | Who long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; |
| 3:22 | Who 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 hath come upon me, and that which I feared hath come to me. |
| 3:26 | I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. |
Ayub 3 - Revised Webster Version
