### American Standard Version

Job 2

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 3
#### 1 | After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
#### 2 | And Job answered and said:
#### 3 | Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
#### 4 | Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.
#### 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.
#### 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.
#### 7 | Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
#### 8 | Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
#### 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:
#### 10 | Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
#### 11 | Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
#### 12 | Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
#### 13 | For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
#### 14 | With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
#### 15 | Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:
#### 16 | Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
#### 17 | There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
#### 18 | There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
#### 19 | The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.
#### 20 | Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
#### 21 | Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
#### 22 | Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?
#### 23 | [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
#### 24 | For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
#### 25 | For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
#### 26 | I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.

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