1After310 this opened6605 Job347 his mouth6310, and cursed7043 his day3117.
2And Job347 spake6030, and said559,
3Let the day3117 perish6 wherein I was born3205, and the night3915 in which it was said559, There is a man child1397 conceived2029.
4Let that day3117 be darkness2822; let not God433 regard1875 it from above4605, neither let the light5105 shine3313 upon it.
5Let darkness2822 and the shadow of death6757 stain1350 it; let a cloud6053 dwell7931 upon it; let the blackness3650 of the day3117 terrify1204 it.
6As for that night3915, let darkness652 seize3947 upon it; let it not be joined2302 unto the days3117 of the year8141, let it not come935 into the number4557 of the months3391.
7Lo, let that night3915 be solitary1565, let no joyful voice7445 come935 therein.
8Let them curse5344 it that curse779 the day3117, who are ready6264 to raise up5782 their mourning3882.
9Let the stars3556 of the twilight5399 thereof be dark2821; let it look6960 for light216, but have none; neither let it see7200 the dawning6079 of the day7837:
10Because it shut not up5462 the doors1817 of my mother's womb990, nor hid5641 sorrow5999 from mine eyes5869.
11Why died4191 I not from the womb7358? why did I not give up the ghost1478 when I came out3318 of the belly990?
12Why did the knees1290 prevent6923 me? or why the breasts7699 that I should suck3243?
13For now should I have lain still7901 and been quiet8252, I should have slept3462: then had I been at rest5117,
14With kings4428 and counsellors3289 of the earth776, which built1129 desolate places2723 for themselves;
15Or with princes8269 that had gold2091, who filled4390 their houses1004 with silver3701:
16Or as an hidden2934 untimely birth5309 I had not been; as infants5768 which never saw7200 light216.
17There the wicked7563 cease2308 from troubling7267; and there the weary3019 3581 be at rest5117.
18There the prisoners615 rest7599 together3162; they hear8085 not the voice6963 of the oppressor5065.
19The small6996 and great1419 are there; and the servant5650 is free2670 from his master113.
20Wherefore is light216 given5414 to him that is in misery6001, and life2416 unto the bitter4751 in soul5315;
21Which long2442 for death4194, but it cometh not; and dig2658 for it more than for hid treasures4301;
22Which rejoice8056 exceedingly1524, and are glad7797, when they can find4672 the grave6913?
23Why is light given to a man1397 whose way1870 is hid5641, and whom God433 hath hedged in5526?
24For my sighing585 cometh935 before6440 I eat3899, and my roarings7581 are poured out5413 like the waters4325.
25For the thing which I greatly6343 feared6342 is come857 upon me, and that which I was afraid3025 of is come935 unto me.
26I was not in safety7951, neither had I rest8252, neither was I quiet5117; yet trouble7267 came935.