2. And Job spoke and said,
3. Let the day perish in which I was born and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above; neither let the light shine upon it.
5. Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6. As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
7. O, let that night be solitary; let no song come therein!
8. Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9. Let the stars of its dawn be darkened; they waited for light, but have none; neither let them see the dawning of the day;
10. because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb nor hide the misery from my eyes.
11. Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when I came out of the belly?
12. Why did the knees receive me? Of what use the breasts that I should suck?
13. For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then I would have been at rest,