1. Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
2. And Job said,
3. "Let the day perish on which I was to be born, And the night which said, 'A boy is conceived.'
4. "May that day be darkness; Let not God above care for it, Nor light shine on it.
5. "Let darkness and black gloom claim it; Let a cloud settle on it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6. "As for that night, let darkness seize it; Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.
7. "Behold, let that night be barren; Let no joyful shout enter it.
8. "Let those curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
9. "Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it wait for light but have none, And let it not see the breaking dawn;
10. Because it did not shut the opening of my mother's womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes.
11. "Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?
12. "Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
13. "For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
14. With kings and with counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
15. Or with princes who had gold, Who were filling their houses with silver.
16. "Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.
17. "There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest.