1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. 2Job answered: 3"Let the day perish in which I was born, 4Let that day be darkness. 5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. 6As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. 7Behold, let that night be barren. 8Let them curse it who curse the day, 9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. 10because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, 11"Why did I not die from the womb? 12Why did the knees receive me? 13For now should I have lain down and been quiet. 14with kings and counselors of the earth, 15or with princes who had gold, 16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, 17There the wicked cease from troubling. 18There the prisoners are at ease together. 19The small and the great are there. 20"Why is light given to him who is in misery, 21Who long for death, but it doesn't come; 22who rejoice exceedingly, 23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, 24For my sighing comes before I eat. 25For the thing which I fear comes on me, 26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;