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¹ Afterward Iob opened his mouth, and cursed his day.² And Iob cryed out, and sayd,³ Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.⁴ Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,⁵ But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.⁶ Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths.⁷ Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it.⁸ Let them that curse the day, (being readie to renue their mourning) curse it.⁹ Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,¹⁰ Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.

¹¹ Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?¹² Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?¹³ For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,¹⁴ With the Kings & counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:¹⁵ Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.¹⁶ Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?¹⁷ The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.¹⁸ The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.¹⁹ There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.

²⁰ Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?²¹ Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:²² Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.²³ Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?²⁴ For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.²⁵ For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing yt I was afraid of, is come vnto me.²⁶ I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.