Job 3:1-10 - Job Regrets His Birth

¹ Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. ² And Job said,

³ “Let the day perish on which I was to be born,
And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
⁴ “May that day be darkness;
Let not God above care for it,
Nor light shine on it.
⁵ “Let darkness and black gloom claim it;
Let a cloud settle on it;
Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
⁶ “As for that night, let darkness seize 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 prepared to rouse Leviathan.
⁹ “Let the stars of its twilight be darkened;
Let it wait 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 womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.