and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky. 002:013 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great. 003:001 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. 003:002 Job answered: 003:003 "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.' 003:004 Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. 003:005 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it. 003:006 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. 003:007 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. 003:008 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. 003:009 Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning, 003:010 because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. 003:011 "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? 003:012 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? 003:013 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, 003:014 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves; 003:015 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 003:016 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light. 003:017 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest. 003:018 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster. 003:019 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master. 003:020 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, 003:021 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, 003:022 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 003:023 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in? 003:024 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water. 003:025 For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me. 003:026 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes." 004:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, 004:002 "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved?