1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed…
2And Job answered and said:
3Let the day perish wherein I was born,…
4Let that day be darkness; Let not God…
5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim…
6As for that night, let thick darkness seize…
7Lo, let that night be barren; Let no…
8Let them curse it that curse the day,…
9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be…
10Because it shut not up the doors of…
11Why died I not from the womb? Why…
12Why did the knees receive me? Or why…
13For now should I have lain down and…
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who…
15Or with princes that had gold, Who filled…
16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had…
17There the wicked cease from troubling; And there…
18There the prisoners are at ease together; They…
19The small and the great are there: And…
20Wherefore is light given to him that is…
21Who long for death, but it cometh not,…
22Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they…
23[Why is light given] to a man whose…
24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And…
25For the thing which I fear cometh upon…
26I am not at ease, neither am I…
