Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 9:11.

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    Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
    —Bible: Hebrew Job, 3:3.

    A similar imprecation is found in Jeremiah 20:14-15.

    man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an
    evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the
    sons of men snared in an evil time,
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. IX, 12)