KJ3 Literal Translation
Job 3
1 Job curses the day of his birth. 13 The ease of death. 20 He complains of life, because of his anguish.
1¶ After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
2And Job answered and said:
3Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, A man-child has been conceived.
4Let that day be darkness! Let not God look on it from above, and not let the light shine on it.
5Let darkness and the shadow of death seize upon it. Let a cloud dwell on it; let darkness of day terrify it! Let it not be joined to the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
6Behold, let that night be barren; let not joyful voice come in it.
7Let it be cursed, the day being cursed, those ready to stir up Leviathan.
8Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none, let it wait for eyelids of the dawn.
9For it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb and did not hide toil from my eyes.
10¶ Why did I not die from the womb, come from the womb and expire?
11Why did the knees go before me; or why the breasts, that I should suck?
12For now I would have lain down and have been quiet; I would have slept. Then I would have been at rest,
13with kings and wise men of the earth, who built ruins for themselves;
14or with chiefs; they had gold, they filled their houses with silver;
15or as a hidden miscarriage, I would not have been, like infants who never saw light.
16There the wicked ones cease from turmoil, and there the weary of strength are at rest;
17The prisoners are at ease together, they hear not the voice of the slave-driver;
18the small and the great, he is there, and the slave free from his master.
19¶ Why is light given to the sufferer, and life to him who is bitter of soul;
20who is waiting for death, but it is not; and they dig for it more than for treasures?
21They are rejoicing to exultation. They are glad when they find the grave.
22To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him.
23For my sighing comes before my food; and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
24For the dreadful thing I dreaded has come on me; and that which I feared has come to me.
25I am not at ease, and I am not at rest; and I am not quiet; yet turmoil comes.
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