Job 3:1-10

Revised Standard Version

³ “Let the day perish wherein I was born,
    and the night which said,
    ‘A man-child is conceived.’
⁴ Let that day be darkness!
    May God above not seek it,
    nor light shine upon it.
⁵ Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.
    Let clouds dwell 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 Yea, let that night be barren;
    let no joyful cry be heard^[a] in it.
⁸ Let those curse it who curse the day,
    who are skilled to rouse up Levi′athan.
⁹ Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
    let it hope for light, but have none,
    nor see the eyelids of the morning;
¹⁰ because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
    nor hide trouble from my eyes.