[1] After this opened Job his mouth and cursed his day. [2] And Job spoke and said: [3] "Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, 'There is a manchild 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 precede 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 would I have been at rest [14] with kings and counselors 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 a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, as infants who 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] "Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul, [21] who long for death but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; [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. [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."
