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Chapter 3 |
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1 | After this opened Job his mouth, and
cursed his day. |
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2 | And Job spake, and said, |
| 3 | Let the day
perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man
child conceived. |
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4 | Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from
above, neither let the light shine upon it. |
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5 | Let darkness and the
shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the
day terrify it. |
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6 | As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let
it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of
the months. |
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| Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come
therein. |
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| Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to
raise up their mourning. |
| 9 | Let the stars of the twilight thereof be
dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of
the day: |
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| Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor
hid sorrow from mine eyes. |
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11 | Why died I not from the womb? why did
I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? |
| 12 | Why did the
knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? |
| 13 | For now
should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been
at rest, |
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| With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build
desolate places for themselves; |
| 15 | Or with princes that had
gold, who filled their houses with silver: |
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16 | Or as an hidden
untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. |
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There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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| 18 | There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the
oppressor. |
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| The small and great are there; and the servant is free
from his master. |
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20 | Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,
and life unto the bitter in soul; |
| 21 | Which long for death, but it
cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; |
| 22 | Which
rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? |
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Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged
in? |
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For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured
out like the waters. |
| 25 | For the thing which I greatly feared is come
upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. |
| 26 | I was
not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. |
