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

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

Let darkness and the shadow 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 rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

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

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to arouse leviathan.

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:

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

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

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

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

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Then should I still have comfort; yea, I would exult myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

Return, I pray you, let it not be injustice; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

How long will you 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 fear terrify me:

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

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

If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tents.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.

Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.

Then call, and I will answer: or let me speak, and you answer me.

That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for futility shall be his reward.

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and laid my strength in the dust.

O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no place.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

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

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

The noose is laid for him on the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

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

That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!

All darkness shall be laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown upon shall consume him; it shall go ill with him who is left in his tent.

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolation.

You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established for you: and the light shall shine upon your ways.

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

Is there any number to his armies? and upon whom does not his light arise?

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous.

He binds the streams from overflowing; and the thing that is hid brings he forth to light.

When his lamp shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

If I mocked them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

From want and famine they are gaunt; fleeing of late into the wilderness, desolate and waste.

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

If my heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

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

Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from its socket.

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

Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattery unto man.

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of life.

Let us choose for us justice: let us know among ourselves what is good.

Who has given him charge over the earth? or who has laid on him the whole world?

Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.

With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between.

Do you know when God dispatched them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

And now men can not look on the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes, and clears them.

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.

On what are its foundations fastened? or who laid its cornerstone;

And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the uplifted arm shall be broken.

Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is its place,

By what way is the light distributed, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?

Who has let the wild donkey go free? or who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey?

Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it.

Can you draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?

By his sneezings a light flashes, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.