1After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. 2And Job spoke and said, 3Let the day perish in [which] I was born, and the night [which] said, A man-child is conceived. 4Let that day be darkness. Let not God look upon it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it. Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year, Let it not come into the number of the months. 7Lo, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice come in it. 8Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up Leviathan. 9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none. Let it not see the eyelids of the dawn. 10For it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes. 11Why did I not die from the womb, come from the womb and expire? 12Why did the knees go before me; or why the breasts, that I should suck? 13For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest 14with kings and wise men of the earth, who built ruins for themselves, 15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver; 16or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, like infants who did not see light. 17There the wicked cease [from] troubling, and there the weary are at rest; 18the prisoners are at rest together; they hear not the voice of the slave driver. 19The small and the great are there, and the slave [is] free from his master. 20Why is light given to one who is in misery, and life to the bitter [in] soul, 21who is waiting for death, but [it] comes not; and dig for it more than [for] treasures? 22They are rejoicing to exultation. They are glad when they can find the grave. 23To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him. 24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like the waters. 25For the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come to me. 26I was not in safety, nor did I have rest, nor was I quiet; yet trouble comes.