After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Because they were rebellious against his spirit,\par\tab And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity;\par\tab He multiplieth words without knowledge.\par
Let the day perish wherein I was born,\par\tab And the night which said,\par\tab There is a man-child conceived.
But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.\par
But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.\par
And Job answered and said:
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; {\i yet} every one of them doth curse me.\par