^[1]  After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

^[1]  ---

^[2]  And Job spoke, and said,

^[2]  ---

^[3]  Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

^[3]  ---

^[4]  Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine on it.

^[4]  ---

^[5]  Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

^[5]  ---

^[6]  As for that night, let darkness seize on it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

^[6]  ---

^[7]  See, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

^[7]  ---

^[8]  Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

^[8]  ---

^[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:

^[9]  ---

^[10]  Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.

^[10]  ---

^[11]  Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

^[11]  ---

^[12]  Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

^[12]  ---

^[13]  For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

^[13]  ---

^[14]  With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

^[14]  ---

^[15]  Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

^[15]  ---

^[16]  Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

^[16]  ---

^[17]  There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

^[17]  ---

^[18]  There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

^[18]  ---

^[19]  The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

^[19]  ---

^[20]  Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

^[20]  ---

^[21]  Which long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

^[21]  ---

^[22]  Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

^[22]  ---

^[23]  Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?

^[23]  ---

^[24]  For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

^[24]  ---

^[25]  For the thing which I greatly feared is come on me, and that which I was afraid of is come to me.

^[25]  ---

^[26]  I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

^[26]  ---