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| | Job 3:1 | Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
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| | Job 3:2 | And Job said,
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| | Job 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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| | Job 3:4 | "May that day be darkness; Let not God above care for it, Nor light shine on it.
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| | Job 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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| | Job 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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| | Job 3:7 | "Behold, let that night be barren; Let no joyful shout enter it.
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| | Job 3:8 | "Let those curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
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| | Job 3:9 | "Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it wait for light but have none, And let it not see the breaking dawn;
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| | Job 3:10 | Because it did not shut the opening of my mother's womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes.
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| | Job 3:11 | "Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?
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| | Job 3:12 | "Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
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| | Job 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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| | Job 3:14 | With kings and with counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
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| | Job 3:15 | Or with princes who had gold, Who were filling their houses with silver.
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| | Job 3:16 | "Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.
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| | Job 3:17 | "There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest.
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| | Job 3:18 | "The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
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| | Job 3:19 | "The small and the great are there, And the slave is free from his master.
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| | Job 3:20 | "Why is light given to him who suffers, And life to the bitter of soul,
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| | Job 3:21 | Who long for death, but there is none, And dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
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| | Job 3:22 | Who rejoice greatly, And exult when they find the grave?
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| | Job 3:23 | "Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in?
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| | Job 3:24 | "For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.
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| | Job 3:25 | "For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread befalls me.
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| | Job 3:26 | "I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes."
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
