Job 3:1-10 - Job Regrets His Birth
1 JOB OPENED HIS MOUTH and cursed the day of his birth. 2 He said:
3 May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said: 'A boy is born!' 4 Let that day turn to darkness. May God above not care about it. Let no light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it once more. May a cloud settle over it and may blackness overwhelm its light. 6 About that night, may thick darkness seize it. May it not be included among the days of the year nor be entered in any of the months. 7 Let the night be barren and may no shout of joy be heard in it. 8 May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to lift up Leviathan (Babylonian symbol of sadness and mourning). 9 Let its morning stars become dark and cause it to wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn, 10 for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.