"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

As for that night, let thick darkness seize on 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 voice come therein.

Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

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

"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

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

"Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

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

Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness 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. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid.

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

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

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

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

"Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

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

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

though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

"Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.

"Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

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

"Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

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

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.

When I looked for good, then evil came; 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. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!

let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

Please don't let me respect any man's person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. 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 us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

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

Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

"Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.