3:1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 3:2 And Job said: 3:3 "Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.' 3:4 Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it. 3:5 Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 3:6 That night--let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. 3:7 Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it. 3:8 Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan. 3:9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning, 3:10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes. 3:11 "Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire 3:12 Why did the knees receive me Or why the breasts, that I should nurse 3:13 For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest, 3:14 with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves, 3:15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver. 3:16 Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light 3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. 3:18 There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. 3:19 The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master. 3:20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, 3:21 who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, 3:22 who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave 3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in 3:24 For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water. 3:25 For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me. 3:26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes."