- 1. ¶ AFTER this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day wherein he was born.
- 2. Then Job spoke and said,
- 3. Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, A male child is conceived.
- 4. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 7. Lo, let that night be desolate, let no voice of praise come therein.
- 8. Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up Leviathan.
- 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;
- 10. Because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
- 11. ¶ Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I come forth at birth?
- 12. Why was I reared at my mother’s knee? Why did I suck the breasts?
- 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,
- 14. With kings and governors of the earth who built desolate places for themselves;
- 15. Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
- 16. Or like a hidden untimely birth, as if I had not been; like infants that never saw the light.
- 17. There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
- 18. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
- 19. The small and the great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
- 20. ¶ Why is light given to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul,
- 21. Who long for death, but it comes not, and seek it as one seeks a hidden treasure;
- 22. Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave?
- 23. Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?
- 24. For my sighing comes before I eat, and my moanings are poured out like water.
- 25. For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has befallen me.
- 26. I am not at ease, neither am I calm, nor am I at rest; and yet misfortune came.
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