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¹ After this Iyov opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. ² Iyov answered: ³ "Let the day perish in which I was born, The night which said, 'There is a man-child conceived.' ⁴ Let that day be darkness; Don't let God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine on it. ⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it. ⁶ As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. ⁷ Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. ⁸ Let them curse it who curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up livyatan. ⁹ Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning, ¹⁰ Because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

¹¹ "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? ¹² Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? ¹³ For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, ¹⁴ With kings and counselors of the eretz, Who built up waste places for themselves; ¹⁵ Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver: ¹⁶ Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light. ¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest. ¹⁸ There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster. ¹⁹ The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

²⁰ "Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul, ²¹ Who long for death, but it doesn't come; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures, ²² Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave? ²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in? ²⁴ For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water. ²⁵ For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me. ²⁶ I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble comes."