Job 3 Interlinear

and job spake and said

let the day perish wherein i was born and the night in which it was said there is a man child conceived

let that day be darkness let not god regard it from above neither let the light shine

let darkness and the shadow of death stain it let a cloud dwell upon it let the blackness of the day terrify

as 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

lo let that night be solitary let no joyful voice come

let them curse it that curse the day who are ready to raise up their mourning

let 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

because it shut not up the doors of my mothers womb nor hid sorrow from mine eyes

why died i not from the womb why did i not give up the ghost when i came out of the belly

why did the knees prevent me or why the breasts that i should suck

for now should i have lain still and been quiet i should have slept then had i been at rest

with kings and counsellors of the earth which built desolate places

or with princes that had gold who filled their houses with silver

or as an hidden untimely birth i had not been as infants which never saw light

there the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest

there the prisoners rest together they hear not the voice of the oppressor

the small and great are there and the servant is free from his master

wherefore is light given to him that is in misery and life unto the bitter in soul

which long for death but it cometh not and dig for it more than for hid treasures

which rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave

why is light given to a man whose way is hid and whom god hath hedged in

for my sighing cometh before i eat and my roarings are poured out like the waters

for the thing which i greatly feared is come upon me and that which i was afraid of is come

i was not in safety neither had i rest neither was i quiet yet trouble came