Job 3:3-9

New International Version

³ “May the day of my birth perish,
    and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’^(A)
4 That day—may it turn to darkness;
    may God above not care about it;
    may no light shine on it.
⁵ May gloom and utter darkness^(B) claim it once more;
    may a cloud settle over it;
    may blackness overwhelm it.
⁶ That night—may thick darkness^(C) seize it;
    may it not be included among the days of the year
    nor be entered in any of the months.
⁷ May that night be barren;
    may no shout of joy^(D) be heard in it.
⁸ May those who curse days^[a] curse that day,^(E)
    those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.^(F)
9 May its morning stars become dark;
    may it wait for daylight in vain
    and not see the first rays of dawn,^(G)