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• The Book of Job. (a. V.)
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1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

2 And Job † spake, and said,

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

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

5 Let darkness and the shadow of death ∥ stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; ∥ let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6As 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.

7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up ∥ their mourning.

9 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:

10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14 With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the † weary be at rest.

18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

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

21 Which † long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, * and whom God hath hedged in?

24 For my sighing cometh † before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

25 For † the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

[† ] Heb. answered.

[* ] ch. 10. 13, 19. Jer. 20. 14.

[∥ ] Or, challenge it.

[∥ ] Or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day.

[∥ ] Or, let it not rejoice among the days.

[∥ ] Or, a leviathan.

[† ] Heb. the eyelids of the morning.

[† ] Heb. wearied in strength.

[† ] Heb. wait.

[* ] ch. 19. 8.

[† ] Heb. before my meat.

[† ] Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me.