Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Job 3
⁸ May those curse it who curse the day, Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.
⁹ May the stars of its morning be dark; May it look for light, but have none, And not see the dawning of the day;
¹⁰ Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
¹¹ "Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not perish when I came from the womb?
¹² Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
¹³ For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest
¹⁴ With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built ruins for themselves,
¹⁵ Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver;
¹⁶ Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like infants who never saw light?
¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling, And there the weary are at rest.
¹⁸ There the prisoners rest together; They do not hear the voice of the oppressor.