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1 | After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. |
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2 | And Job spake, and said, |
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3 | Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which
it was said, There is a man child conceived. |
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4 | Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above,
neither let the light shine upon it. |
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5 | Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud
dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. |
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6 | 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. |
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7 | Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come
therein. |
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8 | Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise
up their mourning. |
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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: |
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10 | Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid
sorrow from mine eyes. |
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11 | Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost
when I came out of the belly? |
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12 | Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should
suck? |
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13 | For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have
slept: then had I been at rest, |
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14 | With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate
places for themselves; |
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15 | Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with
silver: |
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16 | Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants
which never saw light. |
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17 | There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be
at rest. |
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18 | There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of
the oppressor. |
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19 | The small and great are there; and the servant is free from
his master. |
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20 | Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life
unto the bitter in soul; |
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21 | Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more
than for hid treasures; |
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22 | Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find
the grave? |
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23 | Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God
hath hedged in? |
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24 | For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured
out like the waters. |
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25 | For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that
which I was afraid of is come unto me. |
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26 | I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet;
yet trouble came. |
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