Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Job 2
¹¹ Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place--Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come and mourn with him, and to comfort him.
¹² And when they raised their eyes from afar, and did not recognize him, they lifted their voices and wept; and each one tore his robe and sprinkled dust on his head toward heaven.
¹³ So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
Job 3
¹ After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
² And Job spoke, and said:
³ "May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said, ’A male child is conceived.’
⁴ May that day be darkness; May God above not seek it, Nor the light shine upon it.
⁵ May darkness and the shadow of death claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it.
⁶ As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year, May it not come into the number of the months.
⁷ Oh, may that night be barren! May no joyful shout come into it!
⁸ May those curse it who curse the day, Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.