Job Chapter 3 – Catholic Bible

The Book of Job

Chapter 3

1 – After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,

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2 – and he said:

3 – Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.

4 – Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.

5 – Let darkness, and the shadow of death cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.

6 – Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.

7 – Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.

8 – Let them curse it who curse the day. who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

9 – Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:

10 – Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.

11 – Why did I not die in the womb, why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?

12 – Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts ?

13 – For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep.

14 – With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:

15 – Or with princes, that possess gold, and All their houses with silver:

16 – Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.

17 – There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.

18 – And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.

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

20 – Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?

21 – That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:

22 – And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave.

23 – To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?

24 – Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:

25 – For the fear which I feared hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.

26 – Have I not dissembled ? have I not kept silence ? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.

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