After{H310} this opened{H6605} Job{H347} his mouth,{H6310} and cursed{H7043} his day.{H3117}

And Job{H347} answered{H6030} and said:{H559}

Let the day{H3117} perish{H6} wherein I was born,{H3205} And the night{H3915} which said,{H559} There is a man-child{H1397} conceived.{H2029}

Let that day{H3117} be darkness;{H2822} Let not God{H433} from above{H4605} seek{H1875} for it, Neither let the light{H5105} shine{H3313} upon it.

Let darkness{H2822} and the shadow of death{H6757} claim{H1350} it for their own; Let a cloud{H6053} dwell{H7931} upon it; Let all that maketh black{H3650} the day{H3117} terrify{H1204} it.

As for that night,{H3915} let thick darkness{H652} seize{H3947} upon it: Let it not rejoice{H2302} among the days{H3117} of the year;{H8141} Let it not come{H935} into the number{H4557} of the months.{H3391}

Lo, let that night{H3915} be barren;{H1565} Let no joyful voice{H7445} come{H935} therein.

Let them curse{H5344} it that curse{H779} the day,{H3117} Who are ready{H6264} to rouse up{H5782} leviathan.{H3882}

Let the stars{H3556} of the twilight{H5399} thereof be dark:{H2821} Let it look{H6960} for light,{H216} but have none; Neither let it behold{H7200} the eyelids{H6079} of the morning:{H7837}

Because it shut not up{H5462} the doors{H1817} of my [mother's] womb,{H990} Nor hid{H5641} trouble{H5999} from mine eyes.{H5869}

Why died{H4191} I not from the womb?{H7358} Why did I not give up the ghost{H1478} when my mother{H990} bare{H3318} me?

Why did the knees{H1290} receive{H6923} me? Or why the breast,{H7699} that I should suck?{H3243}

For now should I have lain down{H7901} and been quiet;{H8252} I should have slept;{H3462} then had I been at rest,{H5117}

With kings{H4428} and counsellors{H3289} of the earth,{H776} Who built{H1129} up waste places{H2723} for themselves;

Or with princes{H8269} that had gold,{H2091} Who filled{H4390} their houses{H1004} with silver:{H3701}

Or as a hidden{H2934} untimely birth{H5309} I had not been, As infants{H5768} that never saw{H7200} light.{H216}

There the wicked{H7563} cease{H2308} from troubling;{H7267} And there the weary{H3019} are at rest.{H5117}

There the prisoners{H615} are at ease{H7599} together;{H3162} They hear{H8085} not the voice{H6963} of the taskmaster.{H5065}

The small{H6996} and the great{H1419} are there: And the servant{H5650} is free{H2670} from his master.{H113}

Wherefore is light{H216} given{H5414} to him that is in misery,{H6001} And life{H2416} unto the bitter{H4751} in soul;{H5315}

Who long{H2442} for death,{H4194} but it cometh not, And dig{H2658} for it more than for hid treasures;{H4301}

Who rejoice{H8056} exceedingly,{H1524} And are glad,{H7797} when they can find{H4672} the grave?{H6913}

[ Why is light given] to a man{H1397} whose way{H1870} is hid,{H5641} And whom God{H433} hath hedged in?{H5526}

For my sighing{H585} cometh{H935} before{H6440} I eat,{H3899} And my groanings{H7581} are poured out{H5413} like water.{H4325}

For the thing which I fear{H6342} cometh{H857} upon me, And that which I am afraid{H3025} of cometh{H935} unto me.

I am not at ease,{H8252} neither am I quiet,{H8252} neither have I rest;{H8252} But trouble{H7267} cometh.{H935}