The Book of Job

 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and ^acursed his day.

 2 And Job spake, and said,

 3 Let the day ^aperish wherein I was ^bborn, 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 ^ashadow 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 ^adied 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 ^aprevent 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, ^awhich 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 ^arest.

 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 ^alight given to him that is in ^bmisery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

 21 Which long for ^adeath, 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.