After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2And Job answered and said:

3Let the day perish wherein I was born,

And the night which said,

There is a man-child conceived.

4Let that day be darkness;

Let not God from above seek for it,

Neither let the light shine upon it.

5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;

Let a cloud dwell upon it;

Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

6As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it:

Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;

Let it not come into the number of the months.

7Lo, let that night be barren;

Let no joyful voice come therein.

8Let them curse it that curse the day,

Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark:

Let it look for light, but have none;

Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,

Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.