The Book of Job, Chapter 3, Verse 9

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that [his] grief was very great.

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

And Job spake, and said,

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

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Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

King James Version

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

American Standard Version

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:

New English Translation

Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

World English Bible

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.

There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.