After this opened
Job
his mouth
, and cursed
his day
.
Let the day perish
wherein I was born
, and the night
in which it was said
, There is a man child
conceived
.
Let that day be darkness
; let not God
regard
it from above
, neither let the light
shine
upon it.
Let darkness and the shadow of death
stain
it; let a cloud
dwell
upon it; let the blackness
of the day
terrify
it.
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
.
Lo, let that night be solitary
, let no joyful voice
come
therein.
Let them curse it that curse
the day
, who are ready
to raise up
their mourning
.
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
:
Because it shut not up the doors
of my mother's womb
, nor hid
sorrow
from mine eyes
.
Why died I not from the womb
? why did I not give up the ghost
when I came out
of the belly
?
Why did the knees prevent
me? or why the breasts
that I should suck
?
For now should I have lain still and been quiet
, I should have slept
: then had I been at rest
,
With kings and counsellors
of the earth
, which built
desolate places
for themselves;
Or with princes that had gold
, who filled
their houses
with silver
:
Or as an hidden untimely birth
I had not been; as infants
which never saw
light
.
There the wicked cease
from troubling
; and there the weary
be at rest
.
There the prisoners rest
together
; they hear
not the voice
of the oppressor
.
The small and great
are there; and the servant
is free
from his master
.
Wherefore is light given
to him that is in misery
, and life
unto the bitter
in soul
;
Which long for death
, but it cometh not; and dig
for it more than for hid treasures
;
Which rejoice exceedingly
, and are glad
, when they can find
the grave
?
Why is light given to a man whose way
is hid
, and whom God
hath hedged in
?
For my sighing cometh
before
I eat
, and my roarings
are poured out
like the waters
.
For the thing which I greatly feared
is come
upon me, and that which I was afraid
of is come
unto me.
I was not in safety, neither had I rest
, neither was I quiet
; yet trouble
came
.