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

2 - And Job spoke, and said,

3 - Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a mail 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 shades 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 to 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 its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

10 - Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.

11 - Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] expire at the time of my birth?

12 - Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?

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 counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;

15 - Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

16 - Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.

17 - There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary are 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 - Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter [in] soul;

21 - Who long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

22 - Who 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 hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.

26 - I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.