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3:1  After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
3:2  And Job said:
3:3  “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’
3:4  Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.
3:5  Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
3:6  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.
3:7  Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it.
3:8  Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.
3:9  Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning,
3:10  because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
3:11  “Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?
3:12  Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
3:13  For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
3:14  with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
3:15  or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
3:16  Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?
3:17  There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
3:18  There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
3:19  The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
3:20  “Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
3:21  who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
3:22  who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?
3:23  Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
3:24  For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
3:25  For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.
3:26  I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes.”