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 counselors of the earth,which built desolate places for 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.