Job 3:1-10

1599 Geneva Bible

3 1 Job complaineth, and curseth the day of his birth.  11 He desireth to die, as though death were the end of all man’s misery.

¹ Afterward ^[a]Job opened his mouth, and ^[b]cursed his day.

² And Job cried out, and said,

³ Let the day ^[c]perish wherein I was born, and the night when it was said, There is a man child conceived.

⁴ Let that day be darkness, let not God ^[d]regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it,

⁵ But let darkness and the ^[e]shadow of death stain it: let the cloud remain upon it, and let them make it fearful as a bitter day.

⁶ Let darkness possess that night, let it not be joined unto the days of the year, nor let it come into the count of the months.

⁷ Yea, desolate be that night, and let no joy be in it.

⁸ Let them that curse the day, (being ^[f]ready to renew their mourning) curse it.

⁹ Let the stars of that twilight be dim through darkness of it: let it look for light, but have none: neither let it ^[g]see ^[h]the dawning of the day,

¹⁰ Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.