King James Bible
"Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it."
Job wishes his birthday to be swallowed by complete darkness, reversing God's first creative act of bringing light into existence. This curse-formula seeks to unmake the day itself, expressing Job's profound desire that he had never been born. Job asks God to withdraw divine attention from that day, effectively removing it from the cosmic order. In ancient Near Eastern thought, God's 'regard' maintained the existence and significance of days, so divine neglect would render the day void. The parallel intensifies the darkness theme by banishing all forms of illumination—natural or divine. This completes Job's anti-creation wish, where his birth-day would exist in perpetual night, outside the normal rhythm of creation.