Job 3:1-10

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³ ‘Forget the day of my birth.
    Forget the night when a son was born to my parents.
⁴ That day should be completely dark,
    with no light to shine on it!
God in heaven above should not even think about it.
⁵ That day should remain in a dark shadow.
    Clouds should cover it so that everywhere is black.
⁶ Remove that night completely!
    It should no longer be a date among the days of the year.
    Remove that day from the months of the year.
⁷ Do not let women become pregnant on that night.
    Nobody should be happy!
⁸ People who know how to curse days should curse that day.
    They should wake up Leviathan, the monster from the sea, to attack it.
⁹ The stars of early morning should be dark on that day.
    Do not let the sun shine at dawn,
    so that there is no end to the dark night.
¹⁰ I curse that day because it allowed me to be born.
    It brought me into a life of trouble.