1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

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Jeremiah 20:14, Jeremiah 20:15, Jeremiah 20:14, Jeremiah 20:15, Psalms 106:33

2And Job spake, and said,

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Judges 18:14, Judges 18:14

3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

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Jeremiah 15:10, Jeremiah 20:14, Jeremiah 20:18, Job 10:18, Job 10:19

4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

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Revelation 16:10, Matthew 27:45, Acts 27:20, Amos 5:18, Exodus 10:22

5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

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Job 10:21, Job 10:22, Psalms 23:4, Job 10:21, Job 10:22

6As 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.

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7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

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Isaiah 24:8, Jeremiah 7:34, Revelation 18:22, Revelation 18:23, Isaiah 13:20

8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

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Job 41:1, Job 41:1, Job 41:10, Job 41:10, Job 41:25

9Let 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:

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Job 41:18, Job 41:18, Job 30:26, Jeremiah 13:16, Jeremiah 8:15

10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

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Ecclesiastes 6:3, Ecclesiastes 6:5, Ecclesiastes 6:3, Ecclesiastes 6:5, 1 Samuel 1:5

11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

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Isaiah 46:3, Job 10:18, Job 10:19, Isaiah 46:3, Job 10:18

12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

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Genesis 30:3, Isaiah 66:12, Genesis 30:3, Isaiah 66:12, Genesis 50:23

13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

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Job 17:13, Job 19:27, Job 7:21, Job 21:23, Job 14:10

14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

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Job 15:28, Job 15:28, Isaiah 14:10, Isaiah 14:16, Isaiah 14:10

15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

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Job 27:16, Job 27:17, Zephaniah 1:18, Isaiah 2:7, Job 22:25

16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

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Psalms 58:8, Psalms 58:8, Ecclesiastes 6:3, Ecclesiastes 6:3, 1 Corinthians 15:8

17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

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Revelation 14:13, Revelation 14:13, Job 17:16, Job 17:16, Job 14:13

18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

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Job 39:7, Job 39:7, Judges 4:3, Isaiah 14:3, Isaiah 14:4

19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

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Job 30:23, Job 30:23, Hebrews 9:27, Ecclesiastes 8:8, Ecclesiastes 12:7

20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

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Jeremiah 20:18, Jeremiah 20:18, Job 7:15, Job 7:16, Job 7:15

21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

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Revelation 9:6, Revelation 9:6, Proverbs 2:4, Proverbs 2:4, Jonah 4:3

22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

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23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

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Job 19:8, Job 19:8, Lamentations 3:7, Lamentations 3:7, Isaiah 40:27

24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

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Psalms 102:9, Psalms 102:9, Psalms 80:5, Psalms 42:3, Psalms 42:4

25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

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Job 1:5, Job 1:5, Job 30:15, Job 30:15, Job 31:23

26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

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Job 7:14, Job 7:14, Job 27:9, Psalms 143:11, Job 27:9