After
this opened
Job
his mouth,
and cursed
his day.
And Job
spake,
and said,
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.
