3:3 "Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, 'A man has been conceived!'
3:4 That day--let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!
3:5 Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
3:6 That night--let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!
3:7 Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!
3:8 Let those who curse the day curse it--those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
3:9 Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,
3:10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
3:11 "Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
3:12 Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
3:13 For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
3:14 with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
3:15 or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.
3:16 Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
3:17 There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
3:18 There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
3:19 Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
3:20 "Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
3:21 to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,
3:22 who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?
3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
3:24 For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
3:25 For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.
3:26 I have no ease, I have no quietness; I cannot rest; turmoil has come upon me."
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