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# Job 3 (New King James Version)
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Job Deplores His Birth
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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."
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