1Job curseth the day of his birth, 11and wisheth he had never been roused out of the quiet sleep of the grave: 20he complaineth of life because of his anguish.
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1After this 1opened Job his mouth, and 2cursed his day.
2And Job aspake, and said,
31Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4Let that day be 1darkness; let not 2God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5Let darkness and the 1shadow of death astain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; blet the blackness of the day terrify it.
6as for that night, let darkness seize upon it; alet it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7Lo, let that night be 1solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8Let them curse it 1that curse the day, who are ready to raise up atheir mourning.
9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it 1look for light, but have none; neither let it see athe dawning of the day:
10Because it 1shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid 2sorrow from mine eyes.
11Why 1died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12Why 1did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13For now should 1I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
141With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15Or with princes that had gold, who 1filled their houses with silver:
16Or 1as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17There the 1wicked cease from troubling; and there the aweary be at rest.
18there the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the 1oppressor.
19The 1small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20Wherefore is 1light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the 2bitter in soul;
211Which along for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23why is light given to a man 1whose way is hid, and 2whom God hath 3hedged in?
24For 1my sighing cometh abefore I eat, and 2my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25For athe thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
261I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.