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[1] After this opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his day
[2] And Iob aunswered, and sayde
[3] Let the day perishe wherin I was borne, and the night in the whiche it was sayd, There is a man childe conceaued
[4] The same day be [turned to] darknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, neither let the light shyne vpon it
[5] But let it be stayned with darknesse and the shadowe of death, let the [dimme] cloude fall vpon it, whiche may make it terrible as a most bitter day
[6] Let the darke storme ouercome that night, and let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yere, nor counted in the number of the monethes
[7] Desolate be that night, and without gladnesse
[8] Let them that curse the day, and that be redy to rayse vp mourning, geue it also their curse
[9] Let the starres of that night be dimme thorowe darkenesse of it, let it loke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day
[10] Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hyd sorowe from myne eyes
[11] [Alas] why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of [my mothers] wombe
[12] Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes
[13] Then should I nowe haue lyen stil, I shoulde haue slept, and ben at rest
[14] Lyke as the kinges and lordes of the earth, which haue buylded them selues speciall places
[15] Or as the princes that haue had golde, and their houses full of siluer
[16] Or [why] was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, [either] as young children which neuer sawe the light
[17] There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie, and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest
[18] There the prisoners rest together, they heare no more the voyce of the oppressour
[19] There are small and great, and the seruaunt [is] free from his maister
[20] Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes
[21] Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures
[22] Which reioyce exceedingly, and be glad when they can finde the graue
[23] From whom their endes are hyd, and consealed by God
[24] For my sighes come before I eate, and my roringes are powred out like the water
[25] For the thing that I feared is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afrayde of is happened vnto me
[26] Was I not happy? Had I not quietnesse? Was I not in rest? And nowe commeth such miserie vpon me
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