Verse 14

Cursed be the daye, wherein I was borne: vnhappie be ye daye, where in my mother brought me forth.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 15:10 : 10 O mother, alas that euer thou dydest beare me, an enemie and hated of the whole londe: Though I neuer lente ner receaued vpon vsury, yet euery man speake euell vpon me.
• Job 3:3-9 : 3 lost be that daye, wherin I was borne: and the night, in the which it was sayde: there is a manchilde conceaued. 4 The same daye be turned to darcknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, nether be shyned vpo wt light: 5 but be couered with darcknesse, and the shadowe of death. Let the dymme cloude fall vpon it, and let it be lapped in with sorowe. 6 Let the darckstorme ouercome ye night, let it not be reckened amonge the dayes off the yeare, ner counted in the monethes. 7 Despysed be that night, and discommended: let them that curse the daye, 8 geue it their curse also, euen those that be ready to rayse vp Leuiathan. 9 Let the starres be dymme thorow darcknesse of it. Let it loke for light, but let it se none, nether the rysynge vp of the fayre mornynge: 10 because it shut not vp the wombe that bare me, ner hyd these sorowes fro myne eyes. 11 Alas, why dyed I not in ye byrth? Why dyd not I perysh, as soone as I came out of my mothers wobe? 12 Why set they me vpo yeir knees? Why gaue they me suck with their brestes? 13 Then shulde I now haue lyen still, I shulde haue slepte, and bene at rest: 14 like as the kynges ad lordes of ye earth, which buylde them selues speciall places: 15 As the prynces that haue greate substaunce of golde, & their houses full of syluer. 16 O that I vtterly had no beynge, or were as a thige borne out of tyme (that is put asyde) ether as yonge children, which neuer sawe the light.