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
