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

That day let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.

That night let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;

Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Return, I pray you, let there be no wrong; yea, return again, my righteousness shall be in it.

I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.

How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid,

Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little,

A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.

If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;

He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out into light the shadow of death;

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard.

Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what will!

Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:

Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;

O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!

They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness.

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.

The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:

He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!

All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.

Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations.

That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.

And thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and light shall shine upon thy ways.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.

There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:

They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all other are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Is there any number of his troops? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

He hath traced a fixed circle over the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth me not one of my days.

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

He bindeth the streams that they drip not, and what is hidden he bringeth forth to light.

When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;

For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.

(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)

Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,

Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!

Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years teach wisdom.

Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person; neither will I give flattery to man.

He hath delivered my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall see the light.

To bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good!

Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

Also with plentiful moisture he loadeth the thick clouds, his light dispels the cloud;

And now men see not the light as it gleameth, it is hidden in the skies. But the wind passeth by and cleareth them.

Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone,

And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the uplifted arm is broken.

Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place,

By what way is the light parted, and the east wind scattered upon the earth?

Shall he that will contend with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth +God, let him answer it.

His sneezings flash light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.