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let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Lo, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice come therein.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built up waste places for themselves;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like water.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, and that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble cometh.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/job/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>