Job 3:1-26 AMP

[1] After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. [2] And Job said, [3] “Let the day on which I was born perish, And the night which announced: ‘There is a man-child conceived.’ [4] May that day be darkness; Let God above not care about it, Nor light shine on it. [5] Let darkness and gloom claim it for their own; Let a cloud settle upon it; Let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born). [6] As for that night, let darkness seize it; Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not be counted in the number of the months. [7] Behold, let that night be barren [and empty]; Let no joyful voice enter it. [8] Let those curse it who curse the day, Who are skilled in rousing up Leviathan. [9] Let the stars of its early dawn be dark; Let the morning wait in vain for the light, Let it not see the eyelids of morning (the day’s dawning), [10] Because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor hide trouble from my eyes. [11] “Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire? [12] Why did the knees receive me? And why the breasts, that I would nurse? [13] For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest [in death], [14] With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built up [now desolate] ruins for themselves; [15] Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver. [16] Or like a miscarriage which is hidden and put away, I would not exist, Like infants who never saw light. [17] There [in death] the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest. [18] There the prisoners rest together; They do not hear the taskmaster’s voice. [19] The small and the great are there, And the servant is free from his master. [20] “Why is the light given to him who is in misery, And life to the bitter in soul, [21] Who wait for death, but it does not come, And dig (search) for death more [diligently] than for hidden treasures, [22] Who rejoice exceedingly, And rejoice when they find the grave? [23] Why is the light of day given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in? [24] For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries [of despair] are poured out like water. [25] For the thing which I greatly fear comes upon me, And that of which I am afraid has come upon me. [26] I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, And I am not at rest, and yet trouble still comes [upon me].”