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Iob 3 - King James 1611 bible

Iob 3

¹After this, opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his day.

²And Iob spake, and said,

³Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-childe conceiued.

⁴Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regard it from aboue, neither let the light shine vpon it.

⁵Let darkenes and the shadowe of death staine it, let a cloud dwell vpon it, let the blacknes of the day terrifie it.

⁶As for that night, let darkenesse seaze vpon it, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, let it not come into the number of the moneths.

⁷Loe, let that night be solitarie, let no ioyfull voice come therein.

⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise vp their mourning.

⁹Let the starres of the twilight thereof be darke, let it looke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day:

¹⁰Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hid sorrowe from mine eyes.

¹¹Why died I not from the wombe? why did I not giue vp the ghost when I came out of the bellie?

¹²Why did the knees preuent mee? or why the breasts, that I should sucke?

¹³For now should I haue lien still and beene quiet, I should haue slept; then had I bene at rest,

¹⁴With Kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselues,

¹⁵Or with Princes that had golde, who filled their houses with siluer:

¹⁶Or as an hidden vntimely birth, I had not bene; as infants which neuer saw light.

¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling: and there the wearie be at rest.

¹⁸There the prisoners rest together, they heare not the voice of the oppressour.

¹⁹The small and great are there, and the seruant is free from his master.

²⁰Wherefore is light giuen to him that is in misery, and life vnto the bitter in soule?

²¹Which long for death, but it commeth not, and dig for it more then for hid treasures:

²²Which reioice exceedingly, and are glad when they can finde the graue?

²³Why is light giuen to a man, whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

²⁴For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters.

²⁵For the thing which I greatly feared is come vpon me, and that which I was afraid of, is come vnto me.

²⁶I was not in safetie, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet: yet trouble came.