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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 3 King James 2000</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">King James 2000</a> > Job 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/2.htm" title="Job 2">◄</a> Job 3 <a href="../job/4.htm" title="Job 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">King James 2000</div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Job Speaks</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="black">After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="black">And Job spoke, and said,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="black">Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="black">Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="black">Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="black">As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="black">Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come into it.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="black">Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to arouse leviathan.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="black">Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="black">Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="black">Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="black">Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should nurse?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="black">For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then would I have been at rest,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="black">With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="black">Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="black">Or as a hidden untimely birth, I had not been; as infants who never saw light.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="black">There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="black">There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="black">The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="black">Therefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="black">Who long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="black">Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="black">Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="black">For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="black">For the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come unto me.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="black">I was not at ease, neither had I quiet, neither was I at rest; yet trouble came.</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The King James 2000 Bible, copyright © Doctor of Theology Robert A. 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