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3:1  After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
3:2  And Job spoke, and said:
3:3  “May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said, ‘A male child is conceived.’
3:4  May that day be darkness; May God above not seek it, Nor the light shine upon it.
3:5  May darkness and the shadow of death claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it.
3:6  As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year, May it not come into the number of the months.
3:7  Oh, may that night be barren! May no joyful shout come into it!
3:8  May those curse it who curse the day, Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.
3:9  May the stars of its morning be dark; May it look for light, but have none, And not see the dawning of the day;
3:10  Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
3:11  “Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not perish when I came from the womb?
3:12  Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
3:13  For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest
3:14  With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built ruins for themselves,
3:15  Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver;
3:16  Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like 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 great are there, And the servant is free from his master.
3:20  “Why is light given to him who is in misery, And life to the bitter of soul,
3:21  Who long for death, but it does not come, And search for it more than 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, And whom God has hedged in?
3:24  For my sighing comes before I eat, And my groanings pour out like water.
3:25  For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, And what I dreaded has happened to me.
3:26  I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for trouble comes.”