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

¹⁴ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

² I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.

³ My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: `Then' spake I with my tongue:

³³ Because they were rebellious against his spirit, And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

²² In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

⁵ But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

⁹ Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.

¹⁰ But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

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

¹⁶ Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity; He multiplieth words without knowledge.