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Job 3 (CEV)

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¹ Finally, Job cursed the day of his birth ² by saying to God: ³ Blot out the day of my birth and the night when my parents created a son. ⁴ Forget about that day, cover it with darkness, ⁵ and send thick, gloomy shadows to fill it with dread. ⁶ Erase that night from the calendar and conceal it with darkness. ⁷ Don't let children be created or joyful shouts be heard ever again in that night. ⁸ Let those with magic powers place a curse on that day. ⁹ Darken its morning stars and remove all hope of light, ¹⁰ because it let me be born into a world of trouble. ¹¹ Why didn't I die at birth? ¹² Why was I accepted and allowed to nurse at my mother's breast? ¹³ Now I would be at peace in the silent world below ¹⁴ with kings and their advisors whose palaces lie in ruins, ¹⁵ and with rulers once rich with silver and gold. ¹⁶ I wish I had been born dead and then buried, never to see the light of day. ¹⁷ In the world of the dead, the wicked and the weary rest without a worry. ¹⁸ Everyone is there-- ¹⁹ where captives and slaves are free at last. ²⁰ Why does God let me live when life is miserable and so bitter? ²¹ I keep longing for death more than I would seek a valuable treasure. ²² Nothing could make me happier than to be in the grave. ²³ Why do I go on living when God has me surrounded, and I can't see the road? ²⁴ Moaning and groaning are my food and drink, ²⁵ and my worst fears have all come true. ²⁶ I have no peace or rest-- only troubles and worries.