Job 3:1-10

Job’s Lament

¹Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. ²And Job said,

3“May the day on which I was to be born perish,

As well as the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

4“May that day be darkness;

May God above not care for it,

Nor light shine on it.

5“May darkness and black gloom claim it;

May a cloud settle on it;

May the blackness of the day terrify it.

6“As for that night, may darkness seize it;

May it not rejoice among the days of the year;

May it not come into the number of the months.

7“Behold, may that night be barren;

May no joyful shout enter it.

8“May those curse it who curse the day,

Who are prepared to disturb Leviathan.

9“May the stars of its twilight be darkened;

May it wait for light but have none,

And may it not see the breaking dawn;

10Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,

Or hide trouble from my eyes.