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

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

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. {the thing...: Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me}

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}

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

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

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

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. {their...: or, leviathan}

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: {the dawning...: Heb. the eyelids of the morning}

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

As {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. {let it not be...: or, let it not rejoice among the days}

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

There the wicked cease {from} troubling; and there the weary be at rest. {weary: Heb. wearied in strength}

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which long for death, but it {cometh} not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; {long: Heb. wait}

And Job spake, and said, {spake: Heb. answered}

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. {stain: or, challenge} {let the...: or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day}

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

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

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

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