1. After all this, Job ⌊finally⌋ opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
2. Job said,
3. “Scratch out the day I was bornand the night that said, ‘A boy has been conceived!’
4. “That day—let it be pitch-black.Let God above not ⌊even⌋ care about it.Let no light shine on it.
5. Let the darkness and long shadows claim it as their own.Let a dark cloud hang over it.Let the gloom terrify it.
6. “That night—let the blackness take it away.Let it not be included in the days of the yearor be numbered among the months.
7. Let that night be empty.Let no joyful singing be heard in it.