Notes on the Book of Job Author:William Kelly Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER HI. The Complaint Of Job. The sympathy of his friends day after day, or their silent presence in face of all his troubles, was too much for the long-... more »enduring saint. After this Job opened his month and cursed his day, And Job answered and said, Perish the day wherein I was born, And the night that said, A man is conceived. That day ! be it darkness; Let not God from above ask after it; And let not light shine upon it; Let darkness and death-shade reclaim it; Let clouds tabernacle on it; Let darkenings of the day affright it. That night! thick darkness seize on it; Let it not be joined to the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months. Lo, that night! let it be barren ; Let no shout of joy come into it; Let cursers of days curse it, Who are prepared to rouse leviathan. The stars of its twilight be dark; Let it look for light but [have] none, And let it not gaze on the eyelids of the dawn; Because it shut not the doors of my [mother's] belly And hid sorrow from mine eyes. Why did I not die from the womb? Come forth from the belly, and expire ? Why did the knees anticipate me, And why the breasts that I should suck ? For now I had lain and been quiet, I had slept, and then had there been rest for me, With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built ruins for themselves; Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver ; Or, as a hidden abortion, I should not be, As infants [that] never saw light: There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest; Together rest the prisoners; They hear not the taskmaster's voice Small and great are there the same; And free the slave from his master. Wherefore giveth He light to the wretched one, And life to the ...« less