Job 3:1-13

Modern English Version

³ “Let the day perish in which I was born
    and the night in which it was said, ‘A male child is conceived.’
⁴ As for that day, let it be darkness;
    let God above not regard it;
    and let not light shine upon it.
⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it;
    let a cloud settle on it;
    let the blackness of the day terrify it.
⁶ As for that night, let darkness capture it;
    let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
    let it not come into the number of the months.
⁷ Yes, as for that night, let it be barren!
    Let no joyful cry come into it!
⁸ Let them curse it who curse any day,
    those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
⁹ Let its morning stars be dark;
    let it look for light, but have none;
    let it not see the rays of dawn,
¹⁰ because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
    nor hide trouble from my eyes.

¹¹ “Why did I not die at birth?
    Why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?
¹² Why did her knees receive me?
    And why her breasts that I should nurse?
¹³ For now I would be lying down and would be at peace;
    I would have slept; then there would be rest for me,