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

3:2 And Job answered and said:
3:2 And Job said,

3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
3:3 "Let the day perish on which I was to be born, And the night [which] said, 'A boy is conceived.'

3:4 Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.
3:4 "May that day be darkness; Let not God above care for it, Nor light shine on it.

3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
3:5 "Let darkness and black gloom claim it; Let a cloud settle on it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it.

3:6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.
3:6 "[As for] that night, let 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 Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
3:7 "Behold, let that night be barren; Let no joyful shout enter it.

3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
3:8 "Let those curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

3:9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
3:9 "Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it wait for light but have none, Neither let it see the breaking dawn;

3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my (mother's) womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
3:10 Because it did not shut the opening of my [mother's] womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes.

3:11 Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
3:11 "Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?

3:12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
3:12 "Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?

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

3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
3:14 With kings and [with] counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt 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 were filling their houses [with] silver.

3:16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
3:16 "Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.

3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
3:17 "There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest.

3:18 There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
3:18 "The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

3:19 The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.
3:19 "The small and the great are there, And the slave 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 suffers, And life to the bitter of soul;

3:21 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
3:21 Who long for death, but there is none, And dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

3:22 Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?
3:22 Who rejoice greatly, They exult when they 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 groanings are poured out like water.
3:24 "For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.

3:25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
3:25 "For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread befalls me.

3:26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.
3:26 "I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes."