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After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day (3:1)

And Job spake, and said, (3:2)

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived (3:3)

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it (3:4)

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it (3:5)

As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months (3:6)

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein (3:7)

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning (3:8)

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: (3:9)

Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes (3:10)

Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? (3:11)

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? (3:12)

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, (3:13)

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; (3:14)

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: (3:15)

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light (3:16)

There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest (3:17)

[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor (3:18)

The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master (3:19)

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; (3:20)

Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; (3:21)

Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave? (3:22)

[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? (3:23)

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters (3:24)

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me (3:25)

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came (3:26)

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