Job 3 - Meaning, Themes & Application

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

" And Job spake, and said, "

" Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. "

" Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine "

" Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify "

" 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. "

" Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come "

" Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. "

" 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: "

" Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. "

" Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? "

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

" For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, "

" With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places "

" Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: "

" Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. "

" There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. "

" There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. "

" The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. "

" Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; "

" Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; "

" Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? "

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

" For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. "

" For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come "

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