Job 3:1-13 ▼

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

2 And Job said,

3 “May the day on which I was to be born perish, As well as the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

4 “May that day be darkness; May God above not care for it, Nor light shine on it.

5 “May darkness and black gloom claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 “As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year; May it not come into the number of the months.

7 “Behold, may that night be barren; May no joyful shout enter it.

8 “May those curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to disturb Leviathan.

9 “May the stars of its twilight be darkened; May it wait for light but have none, And may it not see the breaking dawn;

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

11 “Why did I not die at birth, Come out of the womb and pass away?

12 “Why were the knees there in front of me, And why the breasts, that I would nurse?

13 “For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,