1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2And Job answered and said:3Let the day perish wherein I was born,And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.4Let that day be darkness;Let not God from above seek for it,Neither let the light shine upon it.5Let darkness and 1the shadow of death claim it for their own;Let a cloud dwell upon it;Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.6As 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.7Lo, let that night be 2barren;Let no joyful voice come therein.8Let them curse it that curse the day,Who are 3ready to rouse up leviathan.9Let 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:10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.11Why died I not from the womb?Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?12Why did the knees receive me?Or why the breasts, that I should suck?13For now should I have lain down and been quiet;I should have slept; then had I been at rest,14With kings and counsellors of the earth,Who 4built up waste places for themselves;15Or with princes that had gold,Who filled their houses with silver:16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,As infants that never saw light.17There the wicked cease from 5troubling;And there the weary are at rest.18There the prisoners are at ease together;They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.19The small and the great are there:And the servant is free from his master.
20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,And life unto the bitter in soul;21Who 6long for death, but it cometh not,And dig for it more than for hid treasures;22Who rejoice 7exceedingly,And are glad, when they can find the grave?23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid,And whom God hath hedged in?24For my sighing cometh 8before I eat,And my 9groanings are poured out like water.25For 10the thing which I fear cometh upon me,And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.26I 11am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;But trouble cometh.