Job 3:1-10 - Job Regrets His Birth

¹ After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born. ² He said:

³ May the day I was born perish,
and the night when they said,
“A boy is conceived.”
⁴ If only that day had turned to darkness!
May God above not care about it,
or light shine on it.
⁵ May darkness and gloom reclaim it,
and a cloud settle over it.
May an eclipse of the sun terrify it.
⁶ If only darkness had taken that night away!
May it not appear among the days of the year
or be listed in the calendar.
⁷ Yes, may that night be barren;
may no joyful shout be heard in it.
⁸ Let those who curse certain days
cast a spell on it,
those who are skilled in rousing Leviathan.
⁹ May its morning stars grow dark.
May it wait for daylight but have none;
may it not see the breaking of dawn.
¹⁰ For that night did not shut
the doors of my mother’s womb,
and hide sorrow from my eyes.