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Job Laments his Birth
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Job Deplores His Birth
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
“May the day perish on which I was born,
And the night in which it was said,
‘A male child is conceived.’
And the night in which it was said,
‘A male child is conceived.’
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
May that day be darkness;
May God above not seek it,
Nor the light shine upon it.
May God above not seek it,
Nor 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.
May darkness and the shadow of death claim it;
May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it.
May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it.
As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto 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 therein.
Oh, may that night be barren!
May no joyful shout come into it!
May no joyful shout come into it!
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
May those curse it who curse the day,
Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.
Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
For now I would have lain still and been quiet,
I would have been asleep;
Then I would have been at rest
I would have been asleep;
Then I would have been at rest
With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
With kings and counselors of the earth,
Who built ruins for themselves,
Who built ruins for themselves,
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Or with princes who had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver;
Who filled their houses with silver;
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child,
Like infants who never saw light?
Like infants who never saw light?
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
The small and great are there,
And the servant is free from his master.
And the servant is free from his master.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
“Why is light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter of soul,
And life to the bitter of soul,
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Who rejoice exceedingly,
And are glad when they can find the grave?
And are glad when they can find the grave?
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?
And whom God has hedged in?
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me,
And what I dreaded has happened to me.
And what I dreaded has happened to me.