Job 3:9-11

International Standard Version

⁹Let the stars of its evening twilight be dark;
let it hope for light but let there be none;
let it not see the breaking rays^[a] of the dawn.

¹⁰“Because that night^[b] refused to shut the doors of my mother’s^[c] womb;
it failed to keep me from seeing this trouble.
¹¹Why didn’t I die while I was still in the womb,
or die while I was being born?