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Job - ch 3 v 1 - 20
- After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
- And Job spoke, and said,
- Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a mail child conceived.
- Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
- Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
- As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
- Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
- Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
- Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
- Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
- Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?
- Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
- For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
- With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;
- Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
- Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
- There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
- There the prisoners rest together; they hear not 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 the bitter in soul;
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