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| [1]After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. |
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| [2]And Job spoke, and said: |
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| [3]Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.' |
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| [4]Let that day be darkness; let not God inquire after it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. |
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| [5]L darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it. |
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| [6]As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. |
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| [7]Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein. |
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| [8]Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. |
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| [9]Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning; |
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| [10]Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes. |
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| [11]Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth? |
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| [12]Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck? |
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| [13]For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest— |
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| [14]With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves; |
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| [15]Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver; |
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| [16]Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light. |
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| [17]There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest. |
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| [18]There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. |
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| [19]The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master. |
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| [20]Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul— |
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| [21]Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; |
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| [22]Who rejoice unto exultation, and are glad, when they can find the grave?— |
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| [23]To a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? |
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| [24]For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water. |
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| [25]For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me. |
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| [26]I was not at ease, neither was I quiet, neither had I rest; but trouble came. |
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