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[1]After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
[2]And Job answered and said,
[3]Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
[4]That day -- let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:
[5]Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
[6]That night -- let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
[7]Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;
[8]Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
[9]Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:
[10]Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
[11]Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -- come forth from the belly and expire?
[12]Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
[13]For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
[14]With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,
[15]Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
[16]Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
[17]There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
[18]The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
[19]The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.
[20]Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
[21]Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
[22]Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? --
[23]To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?
[24]For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
[25]For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
[26]I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.
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