Jb 3 (King James)

   ¹ After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. ² And Job spake, and said, ³ Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. ⁴ Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. ⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. ⁶ As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. ⁷ Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. ⁸ Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. ⁹ Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: ¹⁰ Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
   ¹¹ Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? ¹² Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? ¹³ For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, ¹⁴ With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves; ¹⁵ Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: ¹⁶ Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. ¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. ¹⁸ There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. ¹⁹ The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
   ²⁰ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; ²¹ Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; ²² Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? ²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? ²⁴ For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. ²⁵ For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. ²⁶ I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

Jb 3 (Vulgate)

   ¹ Post hæc aperuit Job os suum, et maledixit diei suo,
   ² et locutus est :
   ³ [Pereat dies in qua natus sum,
et nox in qua dictum est : Conceptus est homo.
   ⁴ Dies ille vertatur in tenebras :
non requirat eum Deus desuper,
et non illustretur lumine.
   ⁵ Obscurent eum tenebræ et umbra mortis ;
occupet eum caligo,
et involvatur amaritudine.
   ⁶ Noctem illam tenebrosus turbo possideat ;
non computetur in diebus anni,
nec numeretur in mensibus.
   ⁷ Sit nox illa solitaria,
nec laude digna.
   ⁸ Maledicant ei qui maledicunt diei,
qui parati sunt suscitare Leviathan.
   ⁹ Obtenebrentur stellæ caligine ejus ;
expectet lucem, et non videat,
nec ortum surgentis auroræ.
   ¹⁰ Quia non conclusit ostia ventris qui portavit me,
nec abstulit mala ab oculis meis.
   ¹¹ Quare non in vulva mortuus sum ?
egressus ex utero non statim perii ?
   ¹² Quare exceptus genibus ?
cur lactatus uberibus ?
   ¹³ Nunc enim dormiens silerem,
et somno meo requiescerem
   ¹⁴ cum regibus et consulibus terræ,
qui ædificant sibi solitudines ;
   ¹⁵ aut cum principibus qui possident aurum,
et replent domos suas argento ;
   ¹⁶ aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem,
vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem.
   ¹⁷ Ibi impii cessaverunt a tumultu,
et ibi requieverunt fessi robore.
   ¹⁸ Et quondam vincti pariter sine molestia,
non audierunt vocem exactoris.
   ¹⁹ Parvus et magnus ibi sunt,
et servus liber a domino suo.
   ²⁰ Quare misero data est lux,
et vita his qui in amaritudine animæ sunt :
   ²¹ qui expectant mortem, et non venit,
quasi effodientes thesaurum ;
   ²² gaudentque vehementer
cum invenerint sepulchrum ?
   ²³ viro cujus abscondita est via
et circumdedit eum Deus tenebris ?
   ²⁴ Antequam comedam, suspiro ;
et tamquam inundantes aquæ, sic rugitus meus :
   ²⁵ quia timor quem timebam evenit mihi,
et quod verebar accidit.
   ²⁶ Nonne dissimulavi ? nonne silui ? nonne quievi ?
et venit super me indignatio.]