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King James Bible |
Websters 1833 Bible |
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3:1 | After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. | After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day. |
3:2 | And Job |
And Job spoke, and said, |
3:3 | Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. | Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a mail child conceived. |
3:4 | Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. | Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. |
3:5 | Let darkness and the shadow of death |
Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. |
3:6 | As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; |
As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. |
3:7 | Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. | Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. |
3:8 | Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up |
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. |
3:9 | Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see |
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: |
3:10 | Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. | Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes. |
3:11 | Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? | Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth? |
3:12 | Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? | Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed? |
3:13 | For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, | For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, |
3:14 | With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; | With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves; |
3:15 | Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: | Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: |
3:16 | Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. | Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. |
3:17 | There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the |
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest. |
3:18 | There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. | There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. |
3:19 | The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. | The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. |
3:20 | Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; | Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul; |
3:21 | Which |
Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; |
3:22 | Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? | Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? |
3:23 | Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? | Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? |
3:24 | For my sighing cometh |
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. |
3:25 | For |
For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me. |
3:26 | I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. | I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. |