Job:3

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* After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day . * And Job answered , and said : * Let the day perish in which I was born , and the night in which it was said , A male child has been conceived . * Let that day be darkness ; let God above not inquire after it , nor the light shine upon it . * Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it ; let a cloud settle on it ; let the blackness of the day terrify it . * 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 . * Lo , let that night be barren ! Let no joyful shout come into it ! * Let those curse it who curse the day , those who are ready to stir up Leviathan . * Let the stars of its twilight be dark ; let it look for light , but have none , and not see the eyelids of the dawn ; * because it did not shut up the doors of my mother ’s womb , nor hide trouble from my eyes . * Why did I not die from the womb ? Why did I not expire when I came forth from the belly ? * Why did the knees receive me ? Or why the breasts , that I should suck ? * For now I would have lain down and been quiet , I would have slept ; then I would have been at rest * with kings and counselors of the earth , who built desolate places for themselves ; * or with princes who had gold , who filled their houses with silver . * Or why was I not concealed like a miscarriage , like infants who never saw the light ? * There the wicked cease from turmoil , and there the weary are at rest . * There the prisoners are at ease together ; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor . * The small and great are there , and the slave is free from his master . * Why is light given to him who is in misery , and life to the bitter of soul , * who long for death , but it does not come , and search for it more than hidden treasures ; * who are joyful with exultation , and are glad when they meet the grave ; * or to a man whose way is concealed , whom God has covered ? * For my sighing comes before my food , and my groanings pour out like waters . * For the thing I had dreaded with terror has come upon me , and what I had feared has come to me . * I am not at ease , nor am I quiet ; I have no rest , for turmoil came .

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