✠ The Douay-Rheims Bible
✠ Job 3
Chapters
JOB 3:1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,
JOB 3:2 And he said:
JOB 3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.
JOB 3:4 Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.
JOB 3:5 Let darkness, and the shadow of death cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.
JOB 3:6 Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.
JOB 3:7 Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.
JOB 3:8 Let them curse it who curse the day. who are ready to raise up a leviathan:
JOB 3:9 Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:
JOB 3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.
JOB 3:11 Why did I not die in the womb, why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?
JOB 3:12 Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?
JOB 3:13 For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep.
JOB 3:14 With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:
JOB 3:15 Or with princes, that possess gold, and All their houses with silver:
JOB 3:16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.
JOB 3:17 There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.
JOB 3:18 And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.
JOB 3:19 The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
JOB 3:20 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?
JOB 3:21 That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:
JOB 3:22 And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave.
JOB 3:23 To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?
JOB 3:24 Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:
JOB 3:25 For the fear which I feared hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.
JOB 3:26 Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.