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| 3:1 |
Afterward 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 on which I was to be born, And the night [which] said, 'A boy is conceived.'
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| 3:4 |
"May that day be darkness; Let not God above care for it, Nor light shine on it.
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| 3:5 |
"Let darkness and black gloom claim it; Let a cloud settle on it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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| 3:6 |
"[As for] that night, let 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 |
"Behold, let that night be barren; Let no joyful shout enter it.
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| 3:8 |
"Let those curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
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| 3:9 |
"Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it wait for light but have none, Neither let it see the breaking dawn;
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| 3:10 |
Because it did not shut the opening of my [mother's] womb, Or 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, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
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| 3:13 |
"For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
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| 3:14 |
With kings and [with] counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
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| 3:15 |
Or with princes who had gold, Who were filling their houses [with] silver.
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| 3:16 |
"Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.
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| 3:17 |
"There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest.
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| 3:18 |
"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 slave is free from his master.
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| 3:20 |
"Why is light given to him who suffers, And life to the bitter of soul;
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| 3:21 |
Who long for death, but there is none, And dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
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| 3:22 |
Who rejoice greatly, They exult when they find the grave?
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| 3:23 |
"[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in?
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| 3:24 |
"For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.
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| 3:25 |
"For what 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, And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes."
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