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| 3:1 |
After this, Job opened 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 in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
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| 3:4 |
That day -- let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:
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| 3:5 |
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
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| 3:6 |
That night -- let gloom 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 |
Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;
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| 3:8 |
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
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| 3:9 |
Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:
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| 3:10 |
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
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| 3:11 |
Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -- come forth from the belly and expire?
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| 3:12 |
Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, 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 build desolate places 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 as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
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| 3:17 |
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
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| 3:18 |
The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
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| 3:19 |
The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.
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| 3:20 |
Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
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| 3:21 |
Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
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| 3:22 |
Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? --
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| 3:23 |
To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?
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| 3:24 |
For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
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| 3:25 |
For I feared a fear, and it 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 quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.
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