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3:1  After this opened Job his mouth and cursed his day.
3:2  And Job spoke and said:
3:3  “Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, ‘There is a manchild 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 stain 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  Lo, let that night be solitary; let no joyful voice 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 the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day,
3:10  because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
3:11  “Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
3:12  Why did the knees precede me, or why the breasts that I should suck?
3:13  For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept; then would I have been at rest
3:14  with kings and counselors 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 as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, as infants who never saw light.
3:17  There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
3:18  There the prisoners rest together; they hear not 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 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 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 hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
3:24  For my sighing cometh 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 was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.”