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Job - ch 3 v 1 - 20
- After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
- And Job answered and said,
- Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
- That day -- let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:
- Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
- That night -- let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
- Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;
- Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
- Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:
- Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
- Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -- come forth from the belly and expire?
- Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
- For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
- With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,
- Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
- Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
- There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
- The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
- The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.
- Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
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