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vw@Job:3:1 @ After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

vw@Job:3:2 @ And Job answered, and said:

vw@Job:3:3 @ Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, A male child has been conceived.

vw@Job:3:4 @ Let that day be darkness; let God above not inquire after it, nor the light shine upon it.

vw@Job:3:5 @ Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud settle on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

vw@Job:3:6 @ As for that night, let darkness take it away; let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

vw@Job:3:7 @ Lo, let that night be barren! Let no joyful shout come into it!

vw@Job:3:8 @ Let those curse it who curse the day, those who are ready to stir up Leviathan.

vw@Job:3:9 @ Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none, and not see the eyelids of the dawn;

vw@Job:3:10 @ because it did not shut up the doors of my mothers womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

vw@Job:3:11 @ Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came forth from the belly?

vw@Job:3:12 @ Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

vw@Job:3:13 @ For now I would have lain down and been quiet, I would have slept; then I would have been at rest

vw@Job:3:14 @ with kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;

vw@Job:3:15 @ or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

vw@Job:3:16 @ Or why was I not concealed like a miscarriage, like infants who never saw the light?

vw@Job:3:17 @ There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

vw@Job:3:18 @ There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

vw@Job:3:19 @ The small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

vw@Job:3:20 @ Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,

vw@Job:3:21 @ who long for death, but it does not come, and search for it more than hidden treasures;

vw@Job:3:22 @ who are joyful with exultation, and are glad when they meet the grave;

vw@Job:3:23 @ or to a man whose way is concealed, whom God has covered?

vw@Job:3:24 @ For my sighing comes before my food, and my groanings pour out like waters.

vw@Job:3:25 @ For the thing I had dreaded with terror has come upon me, and what I had feared has come to me.

vw@Job:3:26 @ I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for turmoil came.

Job 3