Job 3:1
Job 3:11After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
Treated as Job's lament under sustained suffering — a window onto the human cost of the integrity test, not a datapoint about whether birth- days were marked among the Israelites. The Watchtower does not engage with the structural implication that Job has a known day to curse.
Like , Job's curse presupposes a recognisable day — knowable, locatable, and with an ordinary baseline of blessedness that is being inverted by the curse. Pair the verse with (recurring family feasts) and (rejoicing at John the Baptist's birth) to show the cumulative biblical pattern: birth is treated as a day to be marked, and the Watchtower's two pagan-tyrant counter-examples — Pharaoh and Herod — are an incidental-fallacy generalisation, not a divine prohibition. in the JW's own NWT settles the question of Christian liberty around days.