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¹ After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. ² And Job spoke, and said:³ Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.'⁴ Let that day be darkness; ⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it.⁶ As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it; ⁷ Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein.⁸ Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.⁹ Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning;¹⁰ Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

¹¹ Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?¹² Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?¹³ For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest--¹⁴ With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;¹⁵ Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver;¹⁶ Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.¹⁸ There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.¹⁹ The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master.

²⁰ Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul--²¹ Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;²² Who rejoice unto exultation, and are glad, when they can find the grave?--²³ To a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?²⁴ For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.²⁵ For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.²⁶ I was not at ease, neither was I quiet, neither had I rest; but trouble came.