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