Job 3:1-13 ▼

1 Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

2 And Job answered and said,

3 “Let the day perish on which I was to be born, And the night which said, ‘A man is conceived.’

4 May that day be darkness; Let not God seek it from above, Nor light shine on it.

5 Let darkness and shadow of death redeem it; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 As for that night, let thick darkness take it; Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

7 Behold, let that night be barren; Let no joyful shout enter it.

8 Let those curse it who curse the day, Who are ready to rouse Leviathan.

9 Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it hope for light but have none, And let it not see the breaking dawn,

10 Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s body, Or hide trouble from my eyes.

11 “Why did I not die from the womb, Come forth from the womb and breathe my last?

12 Why did the knees receive 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; it would have been rest to me,