1. After this opened Iyov his mouth, and cursed his yom.
2. And Iyov spoke, and said,
3. Let the yom perish wherein I was born, and halailah in which it was said, There is a gever born.
4. Let that yom be choshech; let not Elohim regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5. Let choshech and the tzalmavet (shadow of death) claim it; let an anan dwell upon it; let the blackness of the yom terrify it.
6. As for that lailah, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the yamim of the shanah, let it not come into the number of the months.
7. Hinei, let that lailah be barren; let no joyful shout come therein.
8. Let them curse it that curse the yam, who are ready to rouse Leviathan.
9. Let the kokhavim of the dawn thereof be dark; let it look for ohr, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the shachar,
10. Because it shut not up the dalatot of my mother's womb, nor hid amal (tzoros) from mine eyes.
11. Why did I not come to mot at birth? Why did I not perish when I came out of the beten (belly, womb)?
12. Madua (why) were there birkayim to receive me? Or why the shadayim that from them I should nurse?