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3:1  After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
3:2  Job answered:
3:3  "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'
3:4  Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
3:5  Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
3:6  As for that night, let thick darkness seize on 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 voice come therein.
3:8  Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
3:9  Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
3:10  because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
3:11  "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
3:12  Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
3:13  For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
3:14  with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
3:15  or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
3:16  or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
3:17  There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
3:18  There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.
3:19  The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
3:20  "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
3:21  Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
3:22  who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
3:23  Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
3:24  For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
3:25  For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
3:26  I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."