1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed…
2Job answered:
3“Let the day perish in which I was…
4Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God…
5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim…
6As for that night, let thick darkness seize…
7Behold, let that night be barren. Let no…
8Let them curse it who curse the day,…
9Let the stars of its twilight be dark.…
10because it didn’t shut up the doors of…
11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why…
12Why did the knees receive me? Or why…
13For now I should have lain down and…
14with kings and counselors of the earth, who…
15or with princes who had gold, who filled…
16or as a hidden untimely birth I had…
17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the…
18There the prisoners are at ease together. They…
19The small and the great are there. The…
20“Why is light given to him who is…
21who long for death, but it doesn’t come;…
22who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they…
23Why is light given to a man whose…
24For my sighing comes before I eat. My…
25For the thing which I fear comes on…
26I am not at ease, neither am I…
