CAB(i)
3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a male child!
4 Let that night be darkness, and let not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it.
5 But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it.
6 Let that day and night be cursed, let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year, neither let it be numbered with the days of the months.
7 But let that night be pain, and let not mirth come upon it, nor joy.
8 But let him that curses that day curse it, even he that is ready to attack the Great Whale.
9 Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain dark, and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise:
10 because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.
11 For why did I not die in the belly? And why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?
12 And why did the knees support me? And why did I suck the breasts?
13 Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who gloried in their swords;
15 or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver:
16 or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.