Job 3
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After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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And Job answered and said:
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Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child
conceived.
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Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light
shine upon it.
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Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell
upon it; Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
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As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon 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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Behold, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
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Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
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Let the stars of its twilight be dark: Let it look for light, but have none;
Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
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Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother`s] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine
eyes.
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Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare
me?
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Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
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For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been
at rest,
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With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
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Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:
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Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
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There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
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There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
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The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.
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Wherefore is light given to him whom is in misery, And life to the bitter in soul;
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Who long for death, but it comes not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?
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[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God has hedged in?
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For my sighing comes before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
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For the thing which I fear comes upon me, And that which I am afraid of comes to me.
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I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble comes.