Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

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.

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

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:

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?

Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.

Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.

With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;

Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a mail child conceived.

Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

And Job spoke, and said,

The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.