1 After this opened Job his mouth, and ^acursed his day.

  2 And Job spake, and said,

  3 Let the day ^aperish wherein I was ^bborn, 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.

  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 ^adied 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 ^aprevent 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 had I been at rest,

  14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, ^awhich 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 be at ^arest.

  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 ^alight given to him that is in ^bmisery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

  21 Which long for ^adeath, 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.