Job 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,4 Let that day be darkness;5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it:7 Lo, let that night be barren;8 Let them curse it that curse the day,9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,11 Why died I not from the womb?12 Why did the knees receive me?13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet;14 With kings and counsellors of the earth,15 Or with princes that had gold,16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,17 There the wicked cease from troubling;18 There the prisoners are at ease together;19 The small and the great are there:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,21 Who long for death, but it cometh not,22 Who rejoice exceedingly,23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid,24 For my sighing cometh before I eat,25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me,26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;

Job 4

1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,2 If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?3 Behold, thou hast instructed many,4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling,5 But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest;6 Is not thy fear of God thy confidence,7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent?8 According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity,9 By the breath of God they perish,10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion,11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey,

12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me,13 In thoughts from the visions of the night,14 Fear came upon me, and trembling,15 Then a spirit passed before my face;16 It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof;17 Shall mortal man be more just than God?18 Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants;19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay,20 Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed:21 Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them?

Job 5

1 Call now; is there any that will answer thee?2 For vexation killeth the foolish man,3 I have seen the foolish taking root:4 His children are far from safety,5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,6 For affliction cometh not forth from the dust,7 But man is born unto trouble,

8 But as for me, I would seek unto God,9 Who doeth great things and unsearchable,10 Who giveth rain upon the earth,11 So that he setteth up on high those that are low,12 He frustrateth the devices of the crafty,13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness;14 They meet with darkness in the day-time,15 But he saveth from the sword of their mouth,16 So the poor hath hope,17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth:18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up;19 He will deliver thee in six troubles;20 In famine he will redeem thee from death;21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue;22 At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh;23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field;24 And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace;25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great,26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age,27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is;