Job 3:1-13 ▼

1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

2 And Job spoke and said:

3 “May the day perish on which I was born, and the night that one said, ‘A male child has been conceived.’

4 That day—may it be darkness; let not God seek it above, nor let light shine upon it.

5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; may a cloud dwell over it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 That night—let darkness take it! Let it not it rejoice among the days of the year; into the number of the months let it not come.

7 Behold, that night—may it be barren, let no joyful shout come into it.

8 May they curse it, those cursing the day, those ready to rouse Leviathan.

9 May the stars of its morning light be dark; may it look for light and there be none, and do not let it see the eyelids of the dawn;

10 for it did not shut the doors of my womb, and hide trouble from my eyes.

11 Why did I not die from the womb? I should have come forth from the belly and expired!

12 Why did the knees meet me, and why the breasts that I should suck?

13 For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept—then there would be rest for me