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Job|3:1|-|After this Job opened his mouth and |1a|cursed the day of his birth.
Job|3:2|-|And Job responded and said,
Job|3:3|-|Let the day on which I was born perish,And the night which said, A man has been conceived.
Job|3:4|-|Let that day be darkness;Let God not seek it from above,
Nor let light shine upon it.
Job|3:5|-|Let darkness and the shadow of death reclaim it;Let a cloud dwell upon it;
Let the things that blacken the day terrify it.
Job|3:6|-|As for that night, let deep darkness take hold of it;Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
Let it not come up in the number of the months.
Job|3:7|-|Behold, let that night be barren;Let no joyous shout come in it.
Job|3:8|-|Let those curse it who curse the day,Who are ready to rouse leviathan.
Job|3:9|-|Let its predawn stars be dark;Let it wait for light and there be none,
And do not let it see the eyelids of the dawn.
Job|3:10|-|For it did not shut up the doors of the |a|womb that bore me,Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
Job|3:11|-|Why did I not |1|die at birth,Come forth from the womb and expire?
Job|3:12|-|Why did the knees receive me?And why the breasts, that I should suck?
Job|3:13|-|For now I would have lain down and been undisturbed;I would have slept; then I would have been at rest
Job|3:14|-|With kings and counselors of the earth,Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
Job|3:15|-|Or with princes who had gold,Who filled their houses with silver.
Job|3:16|-|Or like a miscarriage that has been concealed, I would not have been,Like infants that do not see the light.
Job|3:17|-|There the wicked cease from their troubling,And there the weary rest.
Job|3:18|-|Captives are altogether at ease;They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Job|3:19|-|The small and the great are there,And the servant is free from his master.
Job|3:20|-|Why does He give light to him who suffersAnd life to the bitter in soul,
Job|3:21|-|Who wait for |a|death, but it is not there;And dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
Job|3:22|-|Who rejoice to the point of exultationAnd are glad when they have found the grave;
Job|3:23|-|To the man whose way is hiddenAnd whom God has |a|hedged in?
Job|3:24|-|For my sighing comes as my food,And my groaning pours out like water.
Job|3:25|-|For I dread something, and it comes upon me;And what I fear comes to me.
Job|3:26|-|I have no ease and I have no quietAnd I have no rest, but trouble comes.
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