 1After 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. 11Why died I not
from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother
bare me? 12Why d