1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said,

3 Let the day perish wherein 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.

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 prevent me?

Or why the breasts that I should suck?

13 For now should I have lien still and been quiet,

I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14 With kings and counsellers of the earth,

Which 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 had not been;

As infants which 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 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,

And life unto the bitter in soul;

21 Which long for death, but it cometh not;

And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

22 Which 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.