| 章 |
| 3:1 |
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
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| 3:2 |
And Job spoke, and said,
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| 3:3 |
Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a mail child conceived.
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| 3:4 |
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
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| 3:5 |
Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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| 3:6 |
As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
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| 3:7 |
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
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| 3:8 |
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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| 3:9 |
Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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| 3:10 |
Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
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| 3:11 |
Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] expire at the time of my birth?
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| 3:12 |
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
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| 3:13 |
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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| 3:14 |
With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;
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| 3:15 |
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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| 3:16 |
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
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| 3:17 |
There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
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| 3:18 |
[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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| 3:19 |
The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
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| 3:20 |
Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter [in] soul;
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| 3:21 |
Who long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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| 3:22 |
Who rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
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| 3:23 |
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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| 3:24 |
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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| 3:25 |
For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
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| 3:26 |
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
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