1902 Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR)

Job 3

1 Job curseth the day and services of his birth. 13 The ease of death. 20 He complaineth of life, because of his anguish.

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

 3:2 So then Job began, and said:

 3:3 Perish, the day wherein I was born, and the night it was said, Lo! a manchild!

 3:4 That day, be it darkness,—Let not God enquire after it from above, May there shine upon it no clear beam:

 3:5 Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day's dark eclipse cause it terror:

 3:6 That night, darkness take it,—May it not rejoice among the days of the year, Into the number of months, let it not enter.

 3:7 Lo! that night, be it barren, Let no joyous shouting enter therein:

 3:8 Let day-cursers denounce it, Those skilled in rousing the dragon of the sky:

 3:9 Darkened be the stars of its twilight,—Let it wait for light, and there be none, neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn:

 3:10 Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.

 3:11 ¶ Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?

 3:12 For what reason, were there prepared for me—knees? and why—breasts, that I might suck?

 3:13 Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest:

 3:14 With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids:

 3:15 Or with rulers possessing, gold,—Who had filled their houses with silver:

 3:16 Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:

 3:17 There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn are at rest:

 3:18 At once are prisoners at peace, they hear not the voice of a driver:

 3:19 Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.

 3:20 ¶ Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul?—

 3:21 Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:

 3:22 Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave:

 3:23 To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him?

 3:24 For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:

 3:25 For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.

 3:26 I was not careless, nor was I secure, nor had I settled down,—when there came—consternation!