1: Then Job broke the silence. He spoke up and cursed his fate:
3: "Obliterate the day I was born. Blank out the night I was conceived!
4: Let it be a black hole in space. May God above forget it ever happened. Erase it from the books!
5: May the day of my birth be buried in deep darkness, shrouded by the fog, swallowed by the night.
6: And the night of my conception--the devil take it! Rip the date off the calendar, delete it from the almanac.
7: Oh, turn that night into pure nothingness--no sounds of pleasure from that night, ever!
8: May those who are good at cursing curse that day. Unleash the sea beast, Leviathan, on it.
9: May its morning stars turn to black cinders, waiting for a daylight that never comes, never once seeing the first light of dawn.
10: And why? Because it released me from my mother's womb into a life with so much trouble.
11: "Why didn't I die at birth, my first breath out of the womb my last?
12: Why were there arms to rock me, and breasts for me to drink from?
13: I could be resting in peace right now, asleep forever, feeling no pain,
14: In the company of kings and statesmen in their royal ruins,
15: Or with princes resplendent in their gold and silver tombs.
16: Why wasn't I stillborn and buried with all the babies who never saw light,
17: Where the wicked no longer trouble anyone and bone-weary people get a long-deserved rest?
18: Prisoners sleep undisturbed, never again to wake up to the bark of the guards.
19: The small and the great are equals in that place, and slaves are free from their masters.
20: "Why does God bother giving light to the miserable, why bother keeping bitter people alive,
21: Those who want in the worst way to die, and can't, who can't imagine anything better than death,
22: Who count the day of their death and burial the happiest day of their life?
23: What's the point of life when it doesn't make sense, when God blocks all the roads to meaning?
24: "Instead of bread I get groans for my supper, then leave the table and vomit my anguish.
25: The worst of my fears has come true, what I've dreaded most has happened.
26: My repose is shattered, my peace destroyed. No rest for me, ever--death has invaded life." Eliphaz Speaks Out Now You're the One in Trouble