| Chapter 3 |
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After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day. |
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And Job spoke, and said, |
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Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a mail child conceived. |
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Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. |
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Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. |
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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. |
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Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. |
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Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. |
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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: |
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Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes. |
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Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth? |
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Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed? |
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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, |
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With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves; |
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Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: |
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Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. |
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There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest. |
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There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. |
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The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. |
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Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul; |
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Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; |
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Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? |
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Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? |
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For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. |
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For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me. |
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I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. |