Let the Day Perish — Job 2:12–3:5

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. And Job answered and said:

Let the day perish wherein I was born,
And the night which said,
There is a man-child conceived.

Let that day be darkness;
Let not God from above seek for it,
Neither let the light shine upon it.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;
Let a cloud dwell upon it;
Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.