After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

2 And Job answered and said:

3 Let the day perish wherein I was born,

4 Let that day be darkness;

5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;

6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it:

7 Lo, let that night be barren;

8 Let them curse it that curse the day,

9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark:

10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,

11 Why died I not from the womb?

12 Why did the knees receive me?

13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet;

14 With kings and counselors of the earth,

15 Or with princes that had gold,

16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,

17 There the wicked cease from troubling;

18 There the prisoners are at ease together;

19 The small and the great are there:

20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,

21 Who long for death, but it cometh not,

22 Who rejoice exceedingly,

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,

24 For my sighing cometh before I eat,

25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me,

26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;