A<\/span>fter this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/sup>And Job spake, and said,<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.<\/span> <\/p>\n