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# Chapter 3
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1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
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2 And Job spoke, and said:
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3 “May the day perish on which I was born,
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And the night in which it was said,
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‘A male child is conceived.’
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4 May that day be darkness;
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May God above not seek it,
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Nor the light shine upon it.
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5 May darkness and the shadow of death claim it;
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May a cloud settle on it;
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May the blackness of the day terrify it.
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6 As for that night, may darkness seize it;
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May it not rejoice among the days of the year,
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May it not come into the number of the months.
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7 Oh, may that night be barren!
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May no joyful shout come into it!
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8 May those curse it who curse the day,
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Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.
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9 May the stars of its morning be dark;
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May it look for light, but have none,
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And not see the dawning of the day;
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10 Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
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Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
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11 “Why did I not die at birth?
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Why did I not perish when I came from the womb?
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12 Why did the knees receive me?
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Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
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13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet,
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I would have been asleep;
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Then I would have been at rest
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14 With kings and counselors of the earth,
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Who built ruins for themselves,
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15 Or with princes who had gold,
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Who filled their houses with silver;
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16 Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child,
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Like infants who never saw light?
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17 There the wicked cease from troubling,
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And there the weary are at rest.
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18 There the prisoners rest together;
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They do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
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19 The small and great are there,
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And the servant is free from his master.
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20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery,
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And life to the bitter of soul,
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21 Who long for death, but it does not come,
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And search for it more than hidden treasures;
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22 Who rejoice exceedingly,
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And are glad when they can find the grave?
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23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
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And whom God has hedged in?
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24 For my sighing comes before I eat,
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And my groanings pour out like water.
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25 For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me,
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And what I dreaded has happened to me.
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26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
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I have no rest, for trouble comes.” |