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¹ After this, opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his day. ² And Iob spake, and said, ³ Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-childe conceiued. ⁴ Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regard it from aboue, neither let the light shine vpon it. ⁵ Let darkenes and the shadowe of death staine it, let a cloud dwell vpon it, let the blacknes of the day terrifie it. ⁶ As for that night, let darkenesse seaze vpon it, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, let it not come into the number of the moneths. ⁷ Loe, let that night be solitarie, let no ioyfull voice come therein. ⁸ Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise vp their mourning. ⁹ Let the starres of the twilight thereof be darke, let it looke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day: ¹⁰ Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hid sorrowe from mine eyes.

¹¹ Why died I not from the wombe? why did I not giue vp the ghost when I came out of the bellie? ¹² Why did the knees preuent mee? or why the breasts, that I should sucke? ¹³ For now should I haue lien still and beene quiet, I should haue slept; then had I bene at rest, ¹⁴ With Kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselues, ¹⁵ Or with Princes that had golde, who filled their houses with siluer: ¹⁶ Or as an hidden vntimely birth, I had not bene; as infants which neuer saw light. ¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling: and there the wearie be at rest. ¹⁸ There the prisoners rest together, they heare not the voice of the oppressour. ¹⁹ The small and great are there, and the seruant is free from his master.

²⁰ Wherefore is light giuen to him that is in misery, and life vnto the bitter in soule? ²¹ Which long for death, but it commeth not, and dig for it more then for hid treasures: ²² Which reioice exceedingly, and are glad when they can finde the graue? ²³ Why is light giuen to a 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 waters. ²⁵ For the thing which I greatly feared is come vpon me, and that which I was afraid of, is come vnto me. ²⁶ I was not in safetie, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet: yet trouble came.