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| 3:1 |
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
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| 3:2 |
Job said:
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| 3:3 |
"Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man-child is conceived.'
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| 3:4 |
Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, or light shine on it.
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| 3:5 |
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds settle upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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| 3:6 |
That night-- let thick darkness seize it! let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
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| 3:7 |
Yes, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry be heard in it.
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| 3:8 |
Let those curse it who curse the Sea, those who are skilled to rouse up Leviathan.
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| 3:9 |
Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none; may it not see the eyelids of the morning--
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| 3:10 |
because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, and hide trouble from my eyes.
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| 3:11 |
"Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?
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| 3:12 |
Why were there knees to receive me, or breasts for me to suck?
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| 3:13 |
Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest
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| 3:14 |
with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuild ruins for themselves,
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| 3:15 |
or with princes who have gold, who fill their houses with silver.
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| 3:16 |
Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like an infant that never sees the 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 are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
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| 3:19 |
The small and the great are there, and the slaves are free from their masters.
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| 3:20 |
"Why is light given to one in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
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| 3:21 |
who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
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| 3:22 |
who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they find the grave?
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| 3:23 |
Why is light given to one who cannot see the way, whom God has fenced in?
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| 3:24 |
For my sighing comes like my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
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| 3:25 |
Truly the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.
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| 3:26 |
I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest; but trouble comes."
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