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3:1  After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
3:2  And Job answered and said,
3:3  Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
3:4  That day let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:
3:5  Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
3:6  That night let gloom 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  Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;
3:8  Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
3:9  Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:
3:10  Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
3:11  Wherefore did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?
3:12  Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, 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 build desolate 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 that have not seen the light.
3:17  There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
3:18  The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
3:19  The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.
3:20  Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
3:21  Who long for death, and it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
3:22  Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? --
3:23  To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?
3:24  For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
3:25  For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
3:26  I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.