Job 3:4-6

The Voice

⁴     May that day of birth become darkness, and when it has disappeared,
        may God above neither seek it out nor light find a way to shine on it.
⁵     Rather, let darkness and the shadow of death claim the day and its life-giving light.
        Let storm clouds roll over it and threatening blackness terrorize it.
⁶     As to that night of my conception—
        may it be snatched by the thick darkness of death’s realm,
    Never to be released again for any year or any month—
        so my conception and life could never have happened.