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Job - ch 3 v 1 - 20
- After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,
- and he said:
- Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.
- Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.
- Let darkness, and the shadow of death cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.
- Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.
- Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.
- Let them curse it who curse the day. who are ready to raise up a leviathan:
- Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:
- Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.
- Why did I not die in the womb, why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?
- Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts ?
- For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep.
- With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:
- Or with princes, that possess gold, and All their houses with silver:
- Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.
- There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.
- And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.
- The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
- Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?
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