After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born.

May the day I was born perish,
and the night when they said,
“A boy is conceived.”

But mankind is born for trouble
as surely as sparks fly upward.

since we were born only yesterday and know nothing.
Our days on earth are but a shadow.

But a stupid man will gain understanding
as soon as a wild donkey is born a man!

Man born of woman
is short of days and full of trouble.

Were you the first person ever born,
or were you brought forth before the hills?

What is man, that he should be pure,
or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

How can a person be justified before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?

for from my youth, I raised him as his father,
and since the day I was born I guided the widow—

Don’t you know? You were already born;
you have lived so long!