After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2And Job answered and said:
3Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
4Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.
5Let darkness and 1 the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it. 1) Or deep darkness (and so elsewhere)
6As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.
7Lo, let that night be 1 barren; Let no joyful voice come therein. 1) Or solitary
8Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are 1 ready to rouse up leviathan. 1) Or skilful
9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
13For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who 1 built up waste places for themselves; 1) Or built solitary piles
15Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:
16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
17There the wicked cease from 1 troubling; And there the weary are at rest. 1) Or raging
18There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
19The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.
20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
21Who 1 long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures; 1) Heb wait
22Who rejoice 1 exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave? 1) Or unto exultation
23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
24For my sighing cometh 1 before I eat, And my 2 groanings are poured out like water. 1) Or like my food 2) Heb roarings
25For 1 the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me. 1) Or the thing which I feared is come etc
26I 1 am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh. 1) Or was not at ease...yet trouble came