Job 3:5-7

New International Reader's Version

⁵ May gloom and total darkness take it back.
    May a cloud settle over it.
    May blackness cover it up.
⁶ May deep darkness take over the night I was born.
    May it not be included among the days of the year.
    May it never appear in any of the months.
⁷ May no children ever have been born on that night.
    May no shout of joy be heard in it.