Job 3:1-10

New King James Version

³ “May^(A) the day perish on which I was born,
And the night in which it was said,
‘A male child is conceived.’
⁴ May that day be darkness;
May God above not seek it,
Nor the light shine upon it.
⁵ May darkness and ^(B)the shadow of death claim it;
May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it.
⁶ As for that night, may darkness seize it;
May it not ^[b]rejoice among the days of the year,
May it not come into the number of the months.
⁷ Oh, may that night be barren!
May no joyful shout come into it!
⁸ May those curse it who curse the day,
Those ^(C)who are ready to arouse Leviathan.
⁹ May the stars of its morning be dark;
May it look for light, but have none,
And not see the ^[c]dawning of the day;
¹⁰ Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.