THE BIBLE
Job
Chapter 3

3:1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
3:2 Job answered:
3:3 "Let the day perish in which I was born, The night which said, 'There is a man-child conceived.'
3:4 Let that day be darkness; Don't let God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine on it.
3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
3:6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
3:7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
3:8 Let them curse it who curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
3:9 Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
3:10 Because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
3:11 "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
3:12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
3:13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
3:14 With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
3:15 Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:
3:16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light.
3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest.
3:18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.
3:19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
3:20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul,
3:21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
3:22 Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave?
3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in?
3:24 For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.
3:25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
3:26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble comes."

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