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3:1  After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
3:2  And Job spoke and said,
3:3  Let the day perish in which I was born and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
3:4  Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above; neither let the light shine upon it.
3:5  Let darkness and the 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 darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
3:7  O, let that night be solitary; let no song come therein!
3:8  Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
3:9  Let the stars of its dawn be darkened; they waited for light, but have none; neither let them see the dawning of the day;
3:10  because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb nor hide the misery from my eyes.
3:11  Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when I came out of the belly?
3:12  Why did the knees receive me? Of what use the breasts that I should suck?
3:13  For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then I would have been at rest,
3:14  with the kings and the counsellors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;
3:15  or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
3:16  Or, why was I not hidden as an untimely birth, as infants who never saw light?
3:17  There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
3:18  There the prisoners rest together, they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
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 that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
3:21  who long for death, but it comes not; and search for it more than for hid treasures;
3:22  who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave;
3:23  to the man who does not know which way he goes and whom God has hedged in?
3:24  For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
3:25  For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
3:26  I never had prosperity, nor did I secure myself, neither was I at rest; yet trouble came.