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3:1  Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
3:2  And Job answered and said,
3:3  “Let the day perish on which I was to be born, And the night which said, ‘A man is conceived.’
3:4  May that day be darkness; Let not God seek it from above, Nor light shine on it.
3:5  Let darkness and shadow of death redeem it; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
3:6  As for that night, let thick darkness take 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 ready to rouse Leviathan.
3:9  Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it hope 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 body, Or hide trouble from my eyes.
3:11  “Why did I not die from the womb, Come forth from the womb and breathe my last?
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; it would have been rest to me,
3:14  With kings and with counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt waste places for themselves,
3:15  Or with princes who had gold, Who were filling their houses with silver.
3:16  Or why was I not like a miscarriage hidden away, As infants that never saw light?
3:17  There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary of strength 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 is troubled, 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 are glad with joy, And rejoice 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 roaring pours out like water.
3:25  For the dread that I dread comes upon me, And what I am afraid of befalls me.
3:26  I am not complacent, nor am I quiet, And I am not at rest, and raging comes.”