(A)May the day on which I was to be born perish,
As well as the night which said, ‘A [a]boy is conceived.’
May that day be darkness;
May God above not care for it,
Nor light shine on it.
May (B)darkness and black gloom claim it;
May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it.
As for that night, may darkness seize it;
May it not rejoice among the days of the year;
May it not come into the number of the months.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:3 Lit man-child

10 (A)Woe to me, my mother, that you have given birth to me
As a (B)man of strife and a man of contention to all the land!
I have not (C)lent, nor have people lent money to me,
Yet everyone curses me.

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