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| [1]After this opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his day |
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| [2]And Iob aunswered, and sayde |
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| [3]Let the day perishe wherin I was borne, and the night in the whiche it was sayd, There is a man childe conceaued |
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| [4]The same day be [turned to] darknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, neither let the light shyne vpon it |
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| [5]But let it be stayned with darknesse and the shadowe of death, let the [dimme] cloude fall vpon it, whiche may make it terrible as a most bitter day |
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| [6]Let the darke storme ouercome that night, and let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yere, nor counted in the number of the monethes |
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| [7]Desolate be that night, and without gladnesse |
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| [8]Let them that curse the day, and that be redy to rayse vp mourning, geue it also their curse |
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| [9]Let the starres of that night be dimme thorowe darkenesse of it, let it loke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day |
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| [10]Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hyd sorowe from myne eyes |
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| [11][Alas] why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of [my mothers] wombe |
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| [12]Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes |
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| [13]Then should I nowe haue lyen stil, I shoulde haue slept, and ben at rest |
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| [14]Lyke as the kinges and lordes of the earth, which haue buylded them selues speciall places |
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| [15]Or as the princes that haue had golde, and their houses full of siluer |
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| [16]Or [why] was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, [either] as young children which neuer sawe the light |
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| [17]There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie, and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest |
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| [18]There the prisoners rest together, they heare no more the voyce of the oppressour |
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| [19]There are small and great, and the seruaunt [is] free from his maister |
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| [20]Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes |
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| [21]Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures |
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| [22]Which reioyce exceedingly, and be glad when they can finde the graue |
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| [23]From whom their endes are hyd, and consealed by God |
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| [24]For my sighes come before I eate, and my roringes are powred out like the water |
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| [25]For the thing that I feared is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afrayde of is happened vnto me |
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| [26]Was I not happy? Had I not quietnesse? Was I not in rest? And nowe commeth such miserie vpon me |
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