Verse 14

Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: and let not the day wherein my mother bare me, be blessed.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 15:10 : 10 Wo is mee, my mother, that thou hast borne mee, a contentious man, and a man that striueth with the whole earth I haue neither lent on vsury, nor men haue lent vnto me on vsurie: yet euery one doeth curse me.
• Job 3:3-9 : 3 Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued. 4 Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it, 5 But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day. 6 Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths. 7 Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it. 8 Let them that curse the day, (being readie to renue their mourning) curse it. 9 Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day, 10 Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes. 11 Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe? 12 Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts? 13 For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest, 14 With the Kings & counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places: 15 Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer. 16 Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?