After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 And Job spake, and said,
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the 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 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 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 dawning of the day:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11 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, which built desolate places for themselves;
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
21 Which 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 whom God hath hedged in?
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25 For the thing which 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.
1Yei akyi no, Hiob buee n'ano, na ɔdomee ne da.Under pastoral review
2Na Hiob kasaeɛ, kaa sɛ,Under pastoral review
3Ma da a wɔwoo me mu no nyera, ne anadwo a wɔkaa sɛ, Wɔanyinsɛn ɔbabarima no.Under pastoral review
4Ma saa da no nyɛ esum; mma Onyankopɔn a ɔwɔ soro nnhwɛ no, na mma hann nnhyerɛn no so.Under pastoral review
5Ma esum ne owuo sunsuma nnye no mu; ma omununkum ntena ne so; ma da no kabii mmɔ no hu.Under pastoral review
6Saa anadwo no deɛ, ma esum nkyere no; mma wɔmmfa nka afe no nna ho, mma ɛmmra abosome dodoɔ mu.Under pastoral review
7Hwɛ, ma saa anadwo no nyɛ kotokuro, mma anigyeɛ nne biara mmra mu.Under pastoral review
8Ma wɔn a wɔdome nna no nnome no, wɔn a wɔasiesie wɔn ho sɛ wɔbɛnyane wɔn agyaadwotwa.Under pastoral review
9Ma n'anadwoɔ nsoromma nnyɛ esum; ma ɛnhwɛ hann, na ɛnnya bi; na mma ɛnnhunu adekyeeɛ anintɔn:Under pastoral review
10Efisɛ ɛantoo me maame yafunu apono mu, na ɛamfa awerɛhoɔ anhinta amfiri m'ani so.Under pastoral review
11Adɛn enti na manwu wɔ yafunu mu? adɛn enti na mangyaa me honhom ɛberɛ a mefirii yafunu mu baeɛ?Under pastoral review
12Adɛn enti na nkotodwe gyee me? anaasɛ adɛn enti na nufoɔ wɔ hɔ a mɛnum?Under pastoral review
13Anka seesei mɛda hɔ dinn na mayɛ komm, anka mada: anka ɛnneɛ mahome,Under pastoral review
14Me ne asase so ahene ne afotufoɔ, wɔn a wɔsisii amamfo maa wɔn ho;Under pastoral review
15Anaa me ne mmapɔmma a na wɔwɔ sika kɔkɔɔ, wɔn a wɔde dwetɛ hyɛɛ wɔn afie ma:Under pastoral review
16Anaasɛ anka mɛyɛ sɛ ɔpɔn a wɔde asie, anka merenyɛ hɔ; sɛ mmɔfra a wɔanhunu hann da.Under pastoral review
17Ɛhɔ na adebɔneyɛfoɔ gyae ɔhaw; na ɛhɔ na wɔn a wɔabrɛ no home.Under pastoral review
18Ɛhɔ na nneduafoɔ bom home; wɔnte ɔhyɛsofoɔ nne.Under pastoral review
19Ketewa ne kɛseɛ wɔ hɔ; na akoa de ne ho firi ne wura nsam.Under pastoral review
20Adɛn enti na wɔde hann ma deɛ ɔwɔ ahokyere mu, ne nkwa ma deɛ ne kra mu yɛ nwononwono;Under pastoral review
21Wɔn a wɔtwɛn owuo, na ɛmma; na wɔtu hwehwɛ no sene ademudeɛ a wɔde asie;Under pastoral review
22Wɔn a wɔdi ahurusie pa ara, na wɔn ani gye, ɛberɛ a wɔtumi hunu damena?Under pastoral review
23Adɛn enti na wɔde hann ma ɔbarima a wɔde ne kwan asie, na Onyankopɔn ayɛ ban atwa ne ho?Under pastoral review
24Efisɛ m'ahomeguo ba ansa na madidi, na me nteateam hwie gu sɛ nsuo.Under pastoral review
25Efisɛ adeɛ a na mesuro no pa ara no aba me so, na deɛ na mesuro no aba me nkyɛn.Under pastoral review
26Na menni banbɔ mu, na manhome, na manyɛ komm; nanso ɔhaw baeɛ.Under pastoral review