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Job - ch 3 v 1 - 20
- After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day.
- And Job answereth and saith: --
- Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: `A man-child hath been conceived.'
- That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.
- Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.
- That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come.
- Lo! that night -- let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it.
- Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.
- Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.
- Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
- Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
- Wherefore have knees been before me? And what `are' breasts, that I suck?
- For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me,
- With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.
- Or with princes -- they have gold, They are filling their houses `with' silver.
- (Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)
- There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.
- Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
- Small and great `are' there the same. And a servant `is' free from his lord.
- Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
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