Job 3:1-10

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ “Let the day perish in which I was born,
    and the night that said,
    ‘A man-child is conceived.’
⁴ Let that day be darkness!
    May God above not seek it,
    or light shine on it.
⁵ Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.
    Let clouds settle upon it;
    let the blackness of the day terrify it.
⁶ That night—let thick darkness seize it!
    let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
    let it not come into the number of the months.
⁷ Yes, let that night be barren;
    let no joyful cry be heard^[a] in it.
⁸ Let those curse it who curse the Sea,^[b]
    those who are skilled to rouse up Leviathan.
⁹ Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
    let it hope for light, but have none;
    may it not see the eyelids of the morning—
¹⁰ because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
    and hide trouble from my eyes.