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\c 3
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\p
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\v 1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
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\q
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\v 2 He said:
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\v 3 “Let the day on which I was born perish,
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\q the night that said, ‘A boy has been conceived.’
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\q
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\v 4 Let that day be darkness;
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\q let not God from above call it to mind,
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\q neither let the sunlight shine on it.
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\q
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\v 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;
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\q let a cloud live on it;
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\q let everything that makes the day black truly terrify it.
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\q
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\v 6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize it:
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\q let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
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\q let it not come into the number of the months.
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\q
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\v 7 See, let that night be barren;
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\q let no joyful voice come into it.
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\v 8 Let them curse that day,
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\q those who know how to wake up Leviathan.
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\v 9 Let the stars of that day’s twilight be dark.
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\q Let that day look for light, but find none;
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\q neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn,
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\q
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\v 10 because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
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\q nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
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\v 11 Why did I not die when I came out from the womb?
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\q Why did I not give up my spirit when my mother bore me?
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\v 12 Why did her knees receive me?
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\q Or why did her breasts welcome me so that I should nurse at them?
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\v 13 For now I would have been lying down quietly;
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\q I would have slept and been at rest
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\v 14 with kings and counselors of the earth,
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\q who built up tombs for themselves that are now in ruins.
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\v 15 Or I would have been lying with princes who once had gold,
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\q who had filled their houses with silver.
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\v 16 Or perhaps I would have been stillborn,
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\q like infants that never see the light.
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\q
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\v 17 There the wicked cease from trouble;
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\q there the weary are at rest.
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\v 18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
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\q they do not hear the voice of the slave driver.
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\v 19 Small and great people are there;
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\q the servant is free from his master there.
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\b
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\v 20 Why is light given to him who is in misery;
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\q why is life given to the one who is bitter in soul;
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\q
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\v 21 to one who longs for death, but it does not come;
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\q to one who searches for death more than those who search for hidden treasure?
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\v 22 Why is light given to one who rejoices very much
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\q and is glad when he can find the grave?
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\v 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
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\q a man whom God has hedged in?
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\v 24 For my sighing happens instead of eating;
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\q my groaning is poured out like water.
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\q
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\v 25 For the thing that I feared has come on me;
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\q what I was afraid of has come to me.
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\q
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\v 26 I am not at ease, I am not quiet, and I have no rest;
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\q trouble comes instead.”
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