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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.
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