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¹ After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.² And Job answered and said:³ Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, A [noble] man was 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: Don't let it rejoice among the days of the year; Don't let it come into the number of the months.⁷ Look, let that night be barren; 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 see the eyelids of the morning:¹⁰ Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from my eyes.

¹¹ Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the ghost when my mother bore me?¹² Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should be nursed?¹³ For now I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I would have been at rest,¹⁴ With kings and counselors 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 don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.¹⁹ The small and the great are there: And the slave is free from his master.

²⁰ Why is light given to him that is in misery, And life to the bitter in soul?²¹ Who long for death, but it does not come, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;²² Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave²³ To a [noble] man whose way is hid, And whom God has hedged in.²⁴ For my sighing comes before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.²⁵ For the thing which I fear comes on me, And 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.