Job 3:1-10 - Job Regrets His Birth

¹ Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth, ² Job made answer and said,

³ Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world. ⁴ That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it; ⁵ Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it. ⁶ That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. ⁷ As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it; ⁸ Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake. ⁹ Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn. ¹⁰ Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.