"Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, 'A man has been conceived!'

But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.

Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?

My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

They were distressed, because each one had been so confident; they arrived there, but were disappointed.

"Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken.

thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.

If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.

These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

"Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

For it has been hidden from the eyes of every living creature, and from the birds of the sky it has been concealed.

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,

then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above.

if the members of my household have never said, 'If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job's meat!' --

Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

Take heed, do not turn to evil, for because of this you have been tested by affliction.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?