1. After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
2. And Job answered and said,
3. Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
4. That day--let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:
5. Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
6. That night--let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
7. Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;
8. Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
9. Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:
10. Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
11. Wherefore did I not die from the womb, --come forth from the belly and expire?
12. Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
13. For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14. With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,
15. Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;