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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 said:
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3 “Let the day perish on which I was born,
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and the night that said,
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‘A man is conceived.’
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4 Let that day be darkness!
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May God above not seek it,
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nor light shine upon it.
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5 Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.
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Let clouds dwell upon it;
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let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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6 That night—let thick darkness seize it!
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Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
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let it not come into the number of the months.
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7 Behold, let that night be barren;
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let no joyful cry enter it.
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8 Let those curse it who curse the day,
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who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.
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9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
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let it hope for light, but have none,
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nor see the eyelids of the morning,
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10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb,
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nor hide trouble from my eyes.
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11 “Why did I not die at birth,
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come out from the womb and expire?
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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 then I would have lain down and been quiet;
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I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
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14 with kings and counselors of the earth
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who rebuilt 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 as a hidden stillborn child,
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as infants who never see the 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 are at ease together;
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they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
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19 The small and the great are there,
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and the slave 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 in soul,
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21 who long for death, but it comes not,
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and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
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22 who rejoice exceedingly
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and are glad when they find the grave?
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23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
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whom God has hedged in?
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24 For my sighing comes instead of my bread,
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and my groanings are poured out like water.
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25 For the thing that I fear comes upon me,
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and what I dread befalls me.
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26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
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I have no rest, but trouble comes.” |