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3:1  Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
3:2  And Job said,
3:3  "Let the day perish on which I was to be born, And the night which said, 'A boy is conceived.'
3:4  "May that day be darkness; Let not God above care for it, Nor light shine on it.
3:5  "Let darkness and black gloom claim it; Let a cloud settle on it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
3:6  "As for that night, let darkness seize it; Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.
3:7  "Behold, let that night be barren; Let no joyful shout enter it.
3:8  "Let those curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
3:9  "Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it wait for light but have none, And let it not see the breaking dawn;
3:10  Because it did not shut the opening of my mother's womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes.
3:11  "Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?
3:12  "Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
3:13  "For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
3:14  With kings and with counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
3:15  Or with princes who had gold, Who were filling their houses with silver.
3:16  "Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.
3:17  "There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest.
3:18  "The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
3:19  "The small and the great are there, And the slave is free from his master.
3:20  "Why is light given to him who suffers, And life to the bitter of soul,
3:21  Who long for death, but there is none, And dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
3:22  Who rejoice greatly, And exult 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 groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.
3:25  "For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread befalls me.
3:26  "I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes."