Job 3:1-10 - Job Regrets His Birth

¹ After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day. ² And Job answereth and saith: --

³ Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: 'A man-child hath been conceived.' ⁴ That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it. ⁵ Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days. ⁶ That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come. ⁷ Lo! that night -- let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it. ⁸ Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan. ⁹ Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn. ¹⁰ Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.