1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day. NHEB — Job 3:1
2 Job answered: NHEB — Job 3:2
3 "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'A man is conceived.' NHEB — Job 3:3
4 Let that day be darkness. May God above not care about it, neither let the light shine on it. NHEB — Job 3:4
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let the blackness of the day terrify it. NHEB — Job 3:5
6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. NHEB — Job 3:6
7 Look, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come in it. NHEB — Job 3:7
8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. NHEB — Job 3:8
9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning, NHEB — Job 3:9
10 because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. NHEB — Job 3:10
11 "Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me? NHEB — Job 3:11
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? NHEB — Job 3:12
13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, NHEB — Job 3:13
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves; NHEB — Job 3:14
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: NHEB — Job 3:15
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light. NHEB — Job 3:16
17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest. NHEB — Job 3:17
18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. NHEB — Job 3:18
19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master. NHEB — Job 3:19
20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, NHEB — Job 3:20
21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, NHEB — Job 3:21
22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? NHEB — Job 3:22
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in? NHEB — Job 3:23
24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water. NHEB — Job 3:24
25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me. NHEB — Job 3:25
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes." NHEB — Job 3:26