Job 3
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Job 3:1
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Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his {birth.}
Job 3:3
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"Let the day perish on which I was to be born, And the night {which} said, `A boy is conceived.'
Job 3:4
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"May that day be darkness; Let not God above care for it, Nor light shine on it.
Job 3:5
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"Let darkness and black gloom claim it; Let a cloud settle on it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job 3:6
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"{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.
Job 3:7
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"Behold, let that night be barren; Let no joyful shout enter it.
Job 3:8
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"Let those curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Job 3:9
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"Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it wait for light but have none, And let it not see the breaking dawn;
Job 3:10
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Because it did not shut the opening of my {mother's} womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes.
Job 3:11
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"Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?
Job 3:12
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"Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
Job 3:13
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"For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
Job 3:14
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With kings and {with} counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
Job 3:15
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Or with princes who had gold, Who were filling their houses {with} silver.
Job 3:16
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"Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.
Job 3:17
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"There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest.
Job 3:18
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"The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Job 3:19
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"The small and the great are there, And the slave is free from his master.
Job 3:20
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"Why is light given to him who suffers, And life to the bitter of soul,
Job 3:21
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Who long for death, but there is none, And dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
Job 3:22
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Who rejoice greatly, {And} exult when they find the grave?
Job 3:23
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"{Why is light given} to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in?
Job 3:24
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"For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.
Job 3:25
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"For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread befalls me.
Job 3:26
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"I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes."
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