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| 3:1 |
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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| 3:2 |
And Job answered and said:
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| 3:3 |
Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
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| 3:4 |
Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.
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| 3:5 |
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
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| 3:6 |
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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| 3:7 |
Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
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| 3:8 |
Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
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| 3:9 |
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
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| 3:10 |
Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
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| 3:11 |
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
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| 3:12 |
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
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| 3:13 |
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
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| 3:14 |
With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste 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 that 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 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 servant is free from his master.
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| 3:20 |
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto 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 groanings are poured out like water.
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| 3:25 |
For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
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| 3:26 |
I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.
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