---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Job from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 3
verse_count: 26
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Job, chap. 3, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Job 3

*Job curses the day of his birth The ease of death He complaineth of life.*

**1** AFTER this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
**2** And Job spake, and said,
**3** Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
**4** Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
**5** Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
**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.
**7** Lo, let that night be solitary; let no joyful voice come therein.
**8** Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
**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;
**10** Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
**11** Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
**12** Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
**13** For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
**14** With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places themselves;
**15** Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
**16** Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
**17** There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
**18** There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
**19** The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
**20** Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
**21** Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
**22** Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
**23** Why is light given to a man. whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
**24** For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
**25** For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
**26** I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.