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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 |
And Job said:
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| 3:3 |
'Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, A man-child is conceived.'
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| 3:4 |
Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.
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| 3:5 |
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell 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 |
Yea, 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 day, who are skilled to rouse up Levi'athan.
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| 3:9 |
Let the stars of its dawn be dark;let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning;
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| 3:10 |
because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor 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 did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
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| 3:13 |
For then I should have lain down and been quiet;I should have slept;then I should have been at rest,
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| 3:14 |
with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
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| 3:15 |
or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
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| 3:16 |
Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see 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 hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
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| 3:19 |
The small and the great are there, and the slave 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 comes not, and dig for it more than for hid 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 a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?
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| 3:24 |
For my sighing comes as my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
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| 3:25 |
For 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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