Job

Chapter 3

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¹After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.1 sermon²And Job spake, and said,1 sermon³Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.3 sermons⁴Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.1 sermon⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.1 sermon⁶As 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.1 sermon⁷Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.1 sermon⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.1 sermon⁹Let 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:1 sermon¹⁰Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.1 sermon¹¹Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?2 sermons¹²Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?1 sermon¹³For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,1 sermon¹⁴With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;1 sermon¹⁵Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:1 sermon¹⁶Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.1 sermon¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.1 sermon¹⁸There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.1 sermon¹⁹The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.1 sermon²⁰Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;1 sermon²¹Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;1 sermon²²Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?1 sermon²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?1 sermon²⁴For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.1 sermon²⁵For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.2 sermons²⁶I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.1 sermon