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1 - After this, Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,

2 - And he said:

3 - Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.

4 - Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.

5 - Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.

6 - Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.

7 - Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.

8 - Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

9 - Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:

10 - Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.

11 - Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?

12 - Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?

13 - For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:

14 - With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:

15 - Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with silver:

16 - Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light.

17 - There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.

18 - And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.

19 - The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.

20 - Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?

21 - That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:

22 - And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave?

23 - To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?

24 - Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:

25 - For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.

26 - Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.