1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day,
2and said: lost be the day, wherein I was born:
3and the night, in the which it was said: there is a man child conceived.
4The same day be turned to darkness, and not regarded of God from above, neither be shined upon with light:
5but be covered with darkness, and the shadow of death. Let the dim cloud fall upon it, and let it be lapped in with sorrow.
6Let the dark storm overcome that(the) night, let it not be reckoned among the days of the year, nor counted in the months.
7Despised be that night, and discommended: let them that curse the day,
8even those that be ready to raise up mourning give it also their curse.(geue it their curse also, euen those that be ready to rayse vp Leuiathan.)
9Let the stars be dim thorow darkness of it. Let it look for light, but let it see none, neither the raising up of the fair morning:
10because it shut not up the womb that bare me, nor hide these sorrows from mine eyes.
11Alas, why died I not in the birth? Why did not I perish, as soon as I came out of my mother's womb?
12Why set they me upon their knees? Why gave they me suck with their breasts?
13Then should I now have layen still, I should have slept, and been at rest:
14like as the kings and lords of the earth, which build themselves special places:
15As the princes that have great substance of gold, and their houses full of silver.
16O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time (that is put aside) ether as young children, which never saw the light.
17There must the wicked cease from their tyranny, there such as are overlaboured be at rest:
18there are those let out free, which have been in prison, so that they hear no more the voice of the oppressor:
19There are small and great: the bondman, and he that is free from his master.
20Wherefore is the light given to him that is in misery? and life unto them, that have heavy hearts?
21Which long for death, if it come not:
22and search for it more than for treasure which also would be exceedingly glad, and rejoice if they found their grave.(Which long for death, and it commeth not: for if they might find their grave, they would be marvelous glad, as those that dig up treasure)
23That should be joy to the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth back from him.
24For my sighs come(This is the cause, that I sigh) before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water.(a water floude)
25For the thing that I feared, is come upon me: and the thing that I was afraid of, is happened unto me.
26Was I not happy? Had I not quietness? Was I not in rest? And now cometh such misery upon me.