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- AFTER THIS, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day (birthday).
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- And Job said,
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- Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which announced, There is a man-child conceived.
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- Let that day be darkness! May not God above regard it, nor light shine upon it.
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- Let gloom and deep darkness claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born).
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- As for that night, let thick darkness seize 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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- Yes, let that night be solitary and barren; let no joyful voice come into it.
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- Let those curse it who curse the day, who are skilled in rousing up Leviathan.
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- Let the stars of the early dawn of that day be dark; let [the morning] look in vain for the light, nor let it behold the day's dawning,
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- Because it shut not the doors of my mother's womb nor hid sorrow and trouble from my eyes.
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- Why was I not stillborn? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bore me?
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- Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
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- For then would I have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then would I have been at rest [in death]
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- With kings and counselors of the earth, who built up [now] desolate ruins for themselves,
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- Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
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- Or [why] was I not a miscarriage, hidden and put away, as infants who never saw light?
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- There [in death] the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
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- There the [captive] prisoners rest together; they hear not the taskmaster's voice.
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- The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master. [Jer. 20:14-18.]
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- Why is light [of life] given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
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- Who long and wait for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
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- Who rejoice exceedingly and are elated when they find the grave?
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- [Why is the light of day given] to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
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- For my sighing comes before my food, and my groanings are poured out like water.
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- For the thing which I greatly fear comes upon me, and that of which I am afraid befalls me.
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- I was not or am not at ease, nor had I or have I rest, nor was I or am I quiet, yet trouble came and still comes [upon me].
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