1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 And Job answered and said:
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born,
4 Let that day be darkness;
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;
6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it:
7 Lo, let that night be barren;
8 Let them curse it that curse the day,
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my
11 Why died I not from the womb?
12 Why did the knees receive me?
13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet;
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth,
15 Or with princes that had gold,
16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
17 There the wicked cease from troubling;
18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
19 The small and the great are there:
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,
21 Who long for death, but it cometh not,
22 Who rejoice exceedingly,
23 Why is light given
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat,
25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me,
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;