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| [1]AFTER this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day wherein he was born. |
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| [2]Then Job spoke and said, |
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| [3]Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, A male child is conceived. |
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| [4]Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. |
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| [5]Let the darkness and the shadow of death cover it; let a cloud overshadow it; let those whose days are bitter be terrified by it. |
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| [6]As for that night, let thick darkness cover it; let that day not be reckoned in the number of 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 voice of praise come therein. |
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| [8]Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up Leviathan. |
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| [9]Let the stars of twilight thereof be dark; let the people wait for light, but receive none; neither let them see the dawning of the day; |
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| [10]Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes |
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| [11]Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I come forth at birth? |
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| [12]Why was I reared at my mother's knee? Why did I suck the breasts? |
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| [13]For now I should have been laid in the grave and been quiet, I should have slept; then I should have been at rest, |
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| [14]With kings and governors of the earth who built desolate places for themselves; |
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| [15]Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver; |
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| [16]Or like a hidden untimely birth, as if I had not been; like infants that never saw the 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 rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. |
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| [19]The small and the great are there; and the servant is free from his master |
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| [20]Why is light given to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul, |
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| [21]Who long for death, but it comes not, and seek it as one seeks a hidden treasure; |
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| [22]Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave? |
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| [23]Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in? |
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| [24]For my sighing comes before I eat, and my moanings are poured out like water. |
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| [25]For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has befallen me. |
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| [26]I am not at ease, neither am I calm, nor am I at rest; and yet misfortune came |
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