Job 3

Job 3:1

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.

At the last, Job himself began to break his silence; and, in a pitiful complaint of his misery, weakly cursed the day wherein he was born.

Job 3:3

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein, &c.

Would to God, that day had never come, wherein so wretched a man, as I, was born; and now that it is unhappily come, let it be ever noted for direful and ominous.

Job 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.

Let the deepest and horriblest darkness make it uncomfortable; let a thick cloud cover it; and let a continued darkness make it terrible to all beholders.

Job 3:12

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

Why were the knees of the midwife ready to hold me, or why were the breasts ready to give me suck?

Job 3:14

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves.

With kings and great potentates of the earth, who, to raise glory unto themselves, build sumptuous houses in those places, which, through their desolateness and barrenness, seemed incapable of any cost or magnificence.

Job 3:23

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

Why is light cast away upon a man, whom God hath made so miserable, that there is no way to be hoped for, of his evasion

Job 3:26

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

Indeed, when I was at the best, I never made any account of my life and welfare; and yet this fear and moderation of mind doth not now excuse me from misery.