WikiSysop at 18:37, 25 December 2008

2008-12-25T18:37:22Z

New page

== Iyov (Book of Job), Chapter 3 ==

<named id="1"/>1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

<named id="2"/>2 And Job spoke, and said:

<named id="3"/>3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.'

<named id="4"/>4 Let that day be darkness; let not G-d inquire after it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

<named id="5"/>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.

<named id="6"/>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.

<named id="7"/>7 Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein.

<named id="8"/>8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

<named id="9"/>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;

<named id="10"/>10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

<named id="11"/>11 Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?

<named id="12"/>12 Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

<named id="13"/>13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest--

<named id="14"/>14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

<named id="15"/>15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

<named id="16"/>16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.

<named id="17"/>17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.

<named id="18"/>18 There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

<named id="19"/>19 The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master.

<named id="20"/>20 Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul--

<named id="21"/>21 Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

<named id="22"/>22 Who rejoice unto exultation, and are glad, when they can find the grave?--

<named id="23"/>23 To a man whose way is hid, and whom G-d hath hedged in?

<named id="24"/>24 For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.

<named id="25"/>25 For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.

<named id="26"/>26 I was not at ease, neither was I quiet, neither had I rest; but trouble came.

== See also ==
* [[Iyov 2|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Iyov 3 Commentaries]]
* [[Iyov 4|Next Chapter]]

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Learning resources]]
[[Category:Bible]]
[[Category:Bible Contents]]

[[he:איוב ג]]

[[1917 JPS Copyright|Portions © 1997 by Benyamin Pilant. Portions © 1998 by Larry Nelson.]]

Iyov 3 - Revision history

WikiSysop at 18:37, 25 December 2008