<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1013324">Job</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1013362">Chapter 3</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1013348">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1013389">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Job's Speech</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013363">1</a>. AFTER this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013364">2</a>. And Job spake, and said,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013365">3</a>. Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013366">4</a>. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013367">5</a>. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013368">6</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013369">7</a>. Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013370">8</a>. Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013371">9</a>. 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:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013372">10</a>. Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013373">11</a>. Why died I not from the womb?  why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013374">12</a>. Why did the knees prevent me?  or why the breasts that I should suck?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013375">13</a>. For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013376">14</a>. With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013377">15</a>. Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013378">16</a>. Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013379">17</a>. There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013380">18</a>. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013381">19</a>. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013382">20</a>. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013383">21</a>. Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013384">22</a>. Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013385">23</a>. Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013386">24</a>. For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013387">25</a>. For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013388">26</a>. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.</li>
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