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After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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And Job spoke, and said,
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Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male 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 shadow 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 rejoice among 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 into it.
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Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to arouse leviathan.
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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 shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
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Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?
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Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should nurse?
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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then would I have 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 who 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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Therefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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Who long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hidden 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 has hedged in?
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For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
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For the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come unto me.
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I was not at ease, neither had I quiet, neither was I at rest; yet trouble came.