1. AFTER THIS, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day (birthday).
2. And Job said,
3. Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which announced, There is a man-child conceived.
4. Let that day be darkness! May not God above regard it, nor light shine upon it.
5. Let gloom and deep darkness claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born).
6. As for that night, let thick darkness seize it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
7. Yes, let that night be solitary and barren; let no joyful voice come into it.