1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2And Job answered and said: 3Let the day perish in which I was born, And the night which said, A [noble] man was conceived. 4Let that day be darkness; Don't let God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine on it. 5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud stay on it; Let all that makes blackness of day terrify it. 6As 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. 7Look, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come in it. 8Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan. 9Let the stars of its twilight be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning: 10Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from my eyes. 11Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the ghost when my mother bore me? 12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should be nursed? 13For now I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I would have been at rest, 14With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves; 15Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver: 16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light. 17There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. 18There the prisoners are at ease together; They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster. 19The small and the great are there: And the slave is free from his master. 20Why is light given to him who is in misery, And life to the bitter in soul? 21Who long for death, but it does not come, And dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave 23To a [noble] man whose way is hid, And whom God has hedged in. 24For my sighing comes before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water. 25For the thing which I fear comes on me, And that which I am afraid of comes to me. 26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble comes.