1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2And Iob cryed out, and sayd, 3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths. 7Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it. 8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. 9Let 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: 10Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes. 11Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts? 13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer. 16Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light? 17There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest. 18[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 19There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master. 20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; 21Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures: 22Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue. 23[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 24For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water. 25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. 26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.