[Biblein52weeks-en] Bible in 52 Weeks: Job 3-4 Day: 12

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Bible in 52 Weeks:  
Job 3:1: After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Job 3:2: And Job spake, and said,
Job 3:3: Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Job 3:4: Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Job 3:5: Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job 3:6: As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Job 3:7: Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Job 3:8: Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Job 3:9: Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Job 3:10: Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Job 3:11: Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Job 3:12: Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Job 3:13: For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Job 3:14: With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Job 3:15: Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Job 3:16: Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Job 3:17: There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Job 3:18: There the prisoners rest together; they hear not 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: Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Job 3:21: Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Job 3:22: Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Job 3:23: Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Job 3:24: For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Job 3:25: For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
Job 3:26: I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Job 4:1: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job 4:2: If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 4:3: Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
Job 4:4: Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Job 4:5: But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Job 4:6: Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Job 4:7: Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Job 4:8: Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 4:9: By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Job 4:10: The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job 4:11: The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Job 4:12: Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
Job 4:13: In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
Job 4:14: Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Job 4:15: Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
Job 4:16: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
Job 4:17: Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 4:18: Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
Job 4:19: How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 4:20: They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 4:21: Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
(KJV)


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