Job:3

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* After this , opened Job his mouth , and cursed his day . * So then Job began , and said : * Perish , the day wherein I was born , and the night it was said , Lo ! a manchild ! * That day , be it darkness , Let not God enquire after it from above , May there shine upon it no clear beam : * Let darkness and death-shade buy it back , May there settle down upon it a cloud , Let a days dark eclipse cause it terror : * That night , darkness take it , May it not rejoice among the days of the year , Into the number of months , let it not enter . * Lo ! that night , be it barren , Let no joyous shouting enter therein : * Let day-cursers denounce it , Those skilled in rousing the dragon of the sky : * Darkened be the stars of its twilight , Let it wait for light , and there be none , neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn : * Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was , and so hid trouble from mine eyes . * Wherefore , in the womb , did I not die ? From the womb , come forth and cease to breathe ? * For what reason , were there prepared for meknees ? and whybreasts , that I might suck ? * Surely , at once , had I lain down , and been quiet , I had fallen asleep , then , had I been at rest : * With kings , and counselors of the earth , who had built them pyramids : * Or with rulers possessing , gold , Who had filled their houses with silver : * Or that , like an untimely birth hidden away , I had not come into being , like infants that never saw light : * There , the lawless , cease from raging , and there the toil-worn are at rest : * At once are prisoners at peace , they hear not the voice of a driver : * Small and great , there , they are , and , the slave , is free from his master . * Wherefore give , to the wretched , light ? Or , life , to the embittered in soul ? * Who long for death , and it is not , And have digged for it , beyond hid treasures : * Who rejoice unto exultation , Are glad , when they can find the grave : * To a man , whose way is concealed , And GOD hath straitly enclosed him ? * For , in the face of my food , my sighing , cometh in , and , poured out like the water , are my groans : * For , a dread , I dreaded , and it hath come upon me , and , that from which I shrank , hath overtaken me . * I was not careless , nor was I secure , nor had I settled down , when there cameconsternation !

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