Verse 14

Cursed be the day wherein I was borne, vnhappy be the day wherein my mother brought me foorth.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 15:10 : 10 O mother, alas that thou euer didst beare me, a brawler and rebuker of the whole lande: though I neuer lent nor receaued vpon vsurie, yet all men speake euyll vpon me.
• Job 3:3-9 : 3 Let the day perishe wherin I was borne, and the night in the whiche it was sayd, There is a man childe conceaued. 4 The same day be turned to darknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, neither let the light shyne vpon it: 5 But let it be stayned with darknesse and the shadowe of death, let the dimme cloude fall vpon it, whiche may make it terrible as a most bitter day. 6 Let the darke storme ouercome that night, and let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yere, nor counted in the number of the monethes. 7 Desolate be that night, and without gladnesse. 8 Let them that curse the day, and that be redy to rayse vp mourning, geue it also their curse. 9 Let the starres of that night be dimme thorowe darkenesse of it, let it loke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day: 10 Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hyd sorowe from myne eyes. 11 Alas why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? 12 Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes? 13 Then should I nowe haue lyen stil, I shoulde haue slept, and ben at rest, 14 Lyke as the kinges and lordes of the earth, which haue buylded them selues speciall places, 15 Or as the princes that haue had golde, and their houses full of siluer: 16 Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light?