1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 And Job spoke, and said, spake: Heb. answered
3 Let the day perish when 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. stain: or, challengelet the…: or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day
6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. let it not be…: or, let it not rejoice among the days
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come in it.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. their…: or, leviathan
9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: the dawning…: Heb. the eyelids of the morning
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the womb?
12 Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
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 counsellors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest. weary: Heb. wearied in strength
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 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;
21 Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; long: Heb. wait
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, and whom God hath hedged in?
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. I eat: Heb. my meat
25 For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I feared hath come to me. the thing…: Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.