rsv Job:3
rsv@Job:3:1 @ After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
rsv@Job:3:2 @ And Job said:
rsv@Job:3:3 @ "Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, ` man-child is conceived.'
rsv@Job:3:4 @ Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.
rsv@Job:3:5 @ Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
rsv@Job:3:6 @ 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.
rsv@Job:3:7 @ Yea, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry be heard in it.
rsv@Job:3:8 @ Let those curse it who curse the day, who are skilled to rouse up Levi'athan.
rsv@Job:3:9 @ Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning;
rsv@Job:3:10 @ because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
rsv@Job:3:11 @ "Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?
rsv@Job:3:12 @ Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
rsv@Job:3:13 @ For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,
rsv@Job:3:14 @ with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
rsv@Job:3:15 @ or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
rsv@Job:3:16 @ Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light?
rsv@Job:3:17 @ There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
rsv@Job:3:18 @ There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
rsv@Job:3:19 @ The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
rsv@Job:3:20 @ "Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
rsv@Job:3:21 @ who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
rsv@Job:3:22 @ who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they find the grave?
rsv@Job:3:23 @ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?
rsv@Job:3:24 @ For my sighing comes as my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
rsv@Job:3:25 @ For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.
rsv@Job:3:26 @ I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest; but trouble comes."
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