Job curses the day of his birth
3 📚✭“May the day I was born perish, and the night in which it was said, ‘A male child is conceived.’
4 📚May that day be darkness. May God not regard it from above, and may the light not shine on it. 5 📚May darkness and the shadow of death claim it. May a cloud settle on it. May the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, may darkness seize it. May it not be joined to the days of the year. May it not come into the number of the months. 7 📚Oh, may that night be barren. May no joyful voice come into it. 8 📚✭May those who curse days curse it, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan. 9 📚May the stars of its twilight be dark. May it look for light, but have none, and may it not see the dawning of the day,
10 📚Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, or hide sorrow from my eyes.
11 📚“Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?
12 📚Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts that I should suck?
13 📚✭For now I would have been lying still and quiet; I would have been sleeping. Then I would have been at rest,
14 📚With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up the ruins for themselves,
15 📚Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
16 📚Or why was I not hidden like a still-born child, like infants who never saw light?
17 📚There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
18 📚There the prisoners rest together. They do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
19 📚The small and great are there, and the servant is freed from his master.
20 📚✭“Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
21 📚✭Who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22 Who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave?
23 📚Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in✭?
24 📚For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groans pour out like water.
25 📚✭For the thing which I greatly feared has come on me, and what I was afraid of has come to me.
26 📚I am not at ease; I have no rest; I am not quiet, for turmoil✭ has come”.