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(2) Again In Job's First Discourse.
1  ¶ After this opened Job his mouth, and ( 1a ) cursed his day.
2 And Job spake, and said, ( 1b ) 3 ( a ) Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the ( 1d ) night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the ( b ) shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the ( 1e ) days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. 7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. 8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. 9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the ( c ) dawning of the day: 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. 11 ¶ ( d ) 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 prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, ( e ) which build desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who ( 1f ) filled their houses with silver: 16 Or ( f ) as an hidden untimely ( 1f ) birth I had not been; as infants which ( 1g ) never saw light. 17 There the wicked ( 1g ) cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. 18 There the prisoners rest together; ( g ) they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. 20 ¶ ( h ) Wherefore is ( 1h ) light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the ( i ) bitter in soul; ( 1i ) 21 Which ( j ) long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and ( k ) whom God hath hedged in? 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my ( 1j ) roarings are poured out like the waters. 25 For the thing which ( 1k ) I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. |
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