After this
opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
02 And Job spake, and said,
03 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the
night in which it was said, There is a man child
conceived.
04 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard
it from above, neither let the light shine upon
it.
05 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it;
let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of
the day terrify it.
06 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.
07 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful
voice come therein.
08 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are
ready to raise up their mourning.
09 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,
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14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which
build 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.
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