Job 3 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Job's Lament

Job 3:1

Job 3:1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

Job 3:2

And Job answered and said:

Job 3:3

Let the day perish wherein I was born,

And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

Job 3:4

Let that day be darkness;

Let not God from above seek for it,

Neither let the light shine upon it.

Job 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.

Job 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.

Job 3:7

Lo, let that night be barren;

Let no joyful voice come therein.

Job 3:8

Let them curse it that curse the day,

Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

Job 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:

Job 3:10

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,

Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

Job 3:11

Why died I not from the womb?

Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

Job 3:12

Why did the knees receive me?

Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

Job 3:13

For now should I have lain down and been quiet;

I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

Job 3:14

With kings and counsellors of the earth,

Who built up waste places for themselves;

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Or with princes that had gold,

Who filled their houses with silver:

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Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,

As infants that never saw light.

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There the wicked cease from troubling;

And there the weary are at rest.

Job 3:18

There the prisoners are at ease together;

They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

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The small and the great are there:

And the servant is free from his master.

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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,

And life unto the bitter in soul;

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Who long for death, but it cometh not,

And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

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Who rejoice exceedingly,

And are glad, when they can find the grave?

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Why is light given to a man whose way is hid,

And whom God hath hedged in?

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For my sighing cometh before I eat,

And my groanings are poured out like water.

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For the thing which I fear cometh upon me,

And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.

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I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;

But trouble cometh.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job 3 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Job's Lament

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