Job 3:3-5

New International Reader's Version

³ “May the day I was born be wiped out.
    May the night be wiped away when people said, ‘A boy is born!’
⁴ May that day turn into darkness.
    May God in heaven not care about it.
    May no light shine on it.
⁵ May gloom and total darkness take it back.
    May a cloud settle over it.
    May blackness cover it up.