1Job curseth the day of his birth, 11and wisheth he had never been roused out of the quiet sleep of the grave: 20he complaineth of life because of his anguish.
1AFTER this aopened Job his mouth, and bcursed his day.
a ch. 1.22; 2.10. b Je. 20.14. Ps. 106.33.
2And Job 1spake, and said,
1Heb. answered, ch. 4.1; 6.1; 8.1; 11.1; 15.1; 16.1.
3cLet the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
c ch. 10.18,19. Je. 20.14-18; 15.10.
4Let that day be ddarkness; let not eGod regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
d Ex. 10.22,23. Am. 5.8. Ac. 27.20. e De. 11.12. Ps. 74.16.
5Let darkness and the fshadow of death 2stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; 3let the blackness of the day terrify it.
2Or, challenge it.
3Or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day, Am. 8.10.
f ch. 10.21,22; 24.17; 38.17. Ps. 23.4; 44.19; 107.10,14. Je. 13.16. Am. 5.8. Is. 9.2.
6As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; 4let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
4Or, let it not rejoice among the days.
7Lo, let that night be gsolitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
g Is. 13.21; 24.8. Re. 18.22,23. Je. 7.34.
8Let them curse it hthat curse the day, who are ready to raise up 5their mourning.
5Or, a leviathan, ch. 41.1. Ps. 74.14; 104.26.
h 2Ch. 35.25. Je. 9.17-20. Am. 5.16.
9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it ilook for light, but have none; neither let it see 6the dawning of the day:
6Heb. the eyelids of the morning, ch. 38.12; 41.18.
i ch. 30.26. Je. 8.15; 13.16. Mi. 1.12.
10Because it jshut not up the doors of my mother 's womb, nor hid ksorrow from mine eyes.
j Ge. 20.17,18; 29.31,32; 30.22. k v.24. ch. 6.2,3; 10.1; 23.2.
11Why ldied I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
l ch. 10.8,18,19. Je. 15.10; 20.17,18. Ec. 6.3-5.
12Why mdid the knees *prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
*prevent-meet, receive.
m Ge. 30.3; 50.23. Eze. 16.5. Is. 66.12.
13For now should nI have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
n Is. 57.2. 1Ki. 2.10.
14oWith kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
o Ps. 49.6-10,14; 89.48. ch. 30.23.
15Or with princes that had gold, who pfilled their houses with silver:
p ch. 22.25; 27.16. Nu. 22.18. Pr. 8.21; 10.22.
16Or qas an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
q Ps. 58.8. Re. 6.13. Ec. 6.3-5.
17There the rwicked cease from troubling; and there the 7weary be at rest.
7Heb. wearied in strength, ch. 14.1. He. 4.9. Re. 14.13. Is. 57.2.
r Is. 57.20. Pr. 4.16.
18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the soppressor.
s Ex. 5.6. Ju. 4.3. Es. 7.6.
19The tsmall and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
t Je. 5.4,5. Ps. 49.2,10; 89.48. ch. 30.23.
20Wherefore is ulight given to him that is in misery, and life unto the vbitter in soul;
u Ps. 56.13. ch. 7.15,16; 14.13; 6.9. v 1Sa. 1.10. Pr. 31.6.
21wWhich 8long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
8Heb. wait.
w Re. 9.6. ch. 6.8,9; 7.15,16. Nu. 11.15. 1Ki. 19.4. Jonah 4.3,8.
22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23Why is light given to a man xwhose way is hid, and ywhom God hath zhedged in?
x Is. 40.27. y Ps. 88.8. z ch. 19.8; 12.14. La. 3.7,9. Ho. 2.6.
24For amy sighing cometh 9before I eat, and bmy roarings are poured out like the waters.
9Heb. before my meat, Ps. 42.3; 80.5.
a ch. 7.19. Ps. 102.9. b Ps. 22.1,2,14; 119.136. He. 5.7.
25For 10the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
10Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me.
26cI was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
c Ge. 3.19. ch. 14.1. Ac. 14.22. He. 12.6-11. Re. 3.19. 2Ti. 3.12.