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Job - ch 3 v 1 - 20
- After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
- Job answered:
- "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'
- Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
- Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
- As for that night, let thick darkness seize on 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 voice come therein.
- Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
- Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
- because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
- "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
- Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
- For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
- with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste 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 who never saw light.
- There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
- There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.
- The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
- "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
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