3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
3:1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

3:2 And Job spake, and said,
3:2 And Job spoke, and said:

3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.
3:3 "May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said, 'A male child is conceived.'

3:4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
3:4 May that day be darkness; May God above not seek it, Nor 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.
3:5 May darkness and the shadow of death claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it.

3:6 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.
3:6 As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year, May it not come into the number of the months.

3:7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
3:7 Oh, may that night be barren! May no joyful shout come into it!

3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
3:8 May those curse it who curse the day, Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.

3:9 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:
3:9 May the stars of its morning be dark; May it look for light, but have none, And not see the dawning of the day;

3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
3:10 Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hide 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 belly?
3:11 "Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not perish when I came from the womb?

3:12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
3:12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

3:13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
3:13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest

3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
3:14 With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built ruins for themselves,

3:15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
3:15 Or with princes who 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.
3:16 Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like infants who never saw light?

3:17 There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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.
3:18 There the prisoners rest together; They do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

3:19 The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
3:19 The small and great are there, And the servant is free from his master.

3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
3:20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, And life to the bitter of soul,

3:21 Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
3:21 Who long for death, but it does not come, And search for it more than hidden treasures;

3:22 Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
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?
3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in?

3:24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
3:24 For my sighing comes before I eat, And my groanings pour out like water.

3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
3:25 For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, And what I dreaded has happened to me.

3:26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
3:26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for trouble comes."