1. After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2. And Job answered and said:
3. Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
4. Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.
5. Let 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.
6. As 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.
7. Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
8. Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9. Let 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:
10. Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.