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3:1  After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
3:2  And Job answered and said:
3:3  Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
3:4  Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.
3:5  Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
3:6  As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.
3:7  Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
3:8  Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
3:9  Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
3:10  Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
3:11  Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
3:12  Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
3:13  For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
3:14  With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
3:15  Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:
3:16  Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
3:17  There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
3:18  There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
3:19  The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.
3:20  Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
3:21  Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid 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 hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
3:24  For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
3:25  For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
3:26  I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.