- 1. After this, opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his day.
- 2. And Iob spake, and said,
- 3. Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-childe conceiued.
- 4. Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regard it from aboue, neither let the light shine vpon it.
- 5. Let darkenes and the shadowe of death staine it, let a cloud dwell vpon it, let the blacknes of the day terrifie it.
- 6. As for that night, let darkenesse seaze vpon it, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, let it not come into the number of the moneths.
- 7. Loe, let that night be solitarie, let no ioyfull voice come therein.
- 8. Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise vp their mourning.
- 9. Let the starres of the twilight thereof be darke, let it looke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day:
- 10. Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hid sorrowe from mine eyes.
- 11. Why died I not from the wombe? why did I not giue vp the ghost when I came out of the bellie?
- 12. Why did the knees preuent mee? or why the breasts, that I should sucke?
- 13. For now should I haue lien still and beene quiet, I should haue slept; then had I bene at rest,
- 14. With Kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselues,
- 15. Or with Princes that had golde, who filled their houses with siluer:
- 16. Or as an hidden vntimely birth, I had not bene; as infants which neuer saw light.
- 17. There the wicked cease from troubling: and there the wearie be at rest.
- 18. There the prisoners rest together, they heare not the voice of the oppressour.
- 19. The small and great are there, and the seruant is free from his master.
- 20. Wherefore is light giuen to him that is in misery, and life vnto the bitter in soule?
- 21. Which long for death, but it commeth not, and dig for it more then for hid treasures:
- 22. Which reioice exceedingly, and are glad when they can finde the graue?
- 23. Why is light giuen to a man, whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
- 24. For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters.
- 25. For the thing which I greatly feared is come vpon me, and that which I was afraid of, is come vnto me.
- 26. I was not in safetie, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet: yet trouble came.
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