14 Maldito o dia em que nasci! Não seja bendito o dia em que me deu à luz minha mãe! 15 Maldito o homem que deu as novas a meu pai, dizendo: Nasceu-te um filho!, alegrando-o com isso grandemente. 16 Seja esse homem como as cidades que o Senhor, sem ter compaixão, destruiu; ouça ele clamor pela manhã e ao meio-dia, alarido. 17 Por que não me matou Deus no ventre materno? Por que minha mãe não foi minha sepultura? Ou não permaneceu grávida perpetuamente? 18 Por que saí do ventre materno tão somente para ver trabalho e tristeza e para que se consumam de vergonha os meus dias?

14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; 17 because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!

15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, who made him very glad, saying, "A child is born to you —a son!"

16 May that man be like the towns the LORD overthrew without pity. May he hear wailing in the morning, a battle cry at noon.

17 For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.

18 Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?