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3:1  After this, Job spoke up solemnly, cursing the day he was born.
3:2  This is what Job said:
3:3  "Let the day when I was born be annihilated, along with the night when it was announced, 'It's a boy!'
3:4  Let that day be dark; let God above not care about it; let no light shine over it.
3:5  Let darkness and deep gloom reclaim it; let clouds settle down on it; let blackness in mid-day terrify it.
3:6  Let darkness carry that night away; let it not take its place joyfully among the days of the year; let it not be entered into the calendar.
3:7  "Yes, let that night be barren; let it not appear with its joyful shout.
3:8  Let whoever curses days curse it— those who are ready to awaken monsters.
3:9  Let the stars of its evening twilight be dark; let it hope for light but let there be none; let it not see the breaking rays of the dawn.
3:10  "Because that night refused to shut the doors of my mother's womb; it failed to keep me from seeing this trouble.
3:11  Why didn't I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born?
3:12  Why was there a lap to hold me, and why were there breasts to nurse me?
3:13  "If I had died, I would be lying down by now, undisturbed, asleep, and at rest,
3:14  along with kings and counselors of the earth, who used to build for themselves what are now only ruins,
3:15  or princes who amassed gold for themselves, and who kept filling their houses with silver.
3:16  "Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like babies who never saw the light?
3:17  In that place, the wicked stop causing trouble, and there, those whose strength is exhausted are at rest.
3:18  In that place, those who once were prisoners will be at ease together; they won't hear the voice of oppressors.
3:19  The unimportant and the important are both there, and the servant is free from his master.
3:20  "Why does God give light to the sufferer or life to the bitter person:
3:21  To those who are longing for death— even though it does not come? To those who search for it more than for hidden treasure?
3:22  To those who are happy beyond measure when they reach their graves?
3:23  To the formerly successful man who lost his way in life, and God fenced him in?
3:24  "As far as I'm concerned, my food comes to me in the form of sighs, and my cries of anguish pour out like water.
3:25  For the dreaded thing that I feared has happened to me, what caused me to worry has engulfed me.
3:26  I will not be at ease; I will not be quiet; I will not rest; because trouble has arrived."