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| | Job 3:1 | After this 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 wherein I was born, and the night which said, 'A man-child is conceived.'
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| | Job 3:4 | Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.
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| | Job 3:5 | Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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| | Job 3:6 | That night--let thick 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 | Yea, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry be heard in it.
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| | Job 3:8 | Let those curse it who curse the day, who are skilled to rouse up Levi'athan.
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| | Job 3:9 | Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning;
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| | Job 3:10 | because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor 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? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
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| | Job 3:13 | For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,
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| | Job 3:14 | with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
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| | Job 3:15 | or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
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| | Job 3:16 | Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light?
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| | Job 3:17 | There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
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| | Job 3:18 | There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not 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 that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
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| | Job 3:21 | who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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| | Job 3:22 | who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they find the grave?
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| | Job 3:23 | Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?
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| | Job 3:24 | For my sighing comes as my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
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| | Job 3:25 | For the thing that 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; I have no rest; but trouble comes."
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