7. Lo, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice come therein.
8. Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9. Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
10. Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid trouble 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 receive me? or why 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, which built up waste 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.
18. There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
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;