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¹ After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.² And Job spoke, and said,³ Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a mail child conceived.⁴ Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.⁵ Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.⁶ As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.⁷ Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.⁸ Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.⁹ Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:¹⁰ Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.

¹¹ Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] expire at the time of my birth?¹² Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?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 counselors of the earth, who built desolate 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 [which] never saw light.¹⁷ There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary are at rest.¹⁸ [There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.¹⁹ The small and great are there; and the servant [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 [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;²² Who rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?²³ [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?²⁴ For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.²⁵ For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.²⁶ I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.