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

3:2And Job spake, and said,

3:3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

3:4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

3:6As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

3:7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

3:8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

3:9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

3:10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

3:11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

3:12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

3:13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

3:14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

3:15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

3:16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

3:17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

3:18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

3:19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

3:21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

3:22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

3:23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

3:25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

3:26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

6:1But Job answered and said,

6:2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

6:3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

6:5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

6:6Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

6:7The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

6:8Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

6:9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

6:10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

6:11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

6:12Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

6:13Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

6:14To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

6:15My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

6:16Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

6:17What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

6:18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

6:19The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

6:20They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

6:21For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

6:22Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?

6:23Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

6:24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

6:25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

6:27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

6:28Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.

6:29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

6:30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

7:1Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

7:2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

7:3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

7:4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

7:7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

7:8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

7:10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

7:11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

7:12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

7:13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

7:14Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

7:16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

7:17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

7:18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

7:19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

7:20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

7:21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

7:10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

7:13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

7:19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

23:1Then Job answered and said,

23:2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

23:3Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

23:4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

23:5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

23:6Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

23:7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

23:8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

23:9On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

23:10But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

23:11My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

23:12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

23:13But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

23:14For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

23:15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

23:16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

23:17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

30:1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

30:2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

30:3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

30:5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

30:6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

30:7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

30:8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

30:9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

30:10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

30:11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

30:12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

30:13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

30:14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

30:15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

30:16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

30:17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

30:18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

30:19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

30:20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

30:21Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

30:22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

30:23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

30:24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

30:25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

30:26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

30:27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

30:28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

30:29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

30:31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.