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3:1  Afterward, Job spoke up and cursed the day he was born.
3:2  Job said:
3:3  Perish the day I was born, the night someone said, “A boy has been conceived.”
3:4  That day—let it be darkness; may God above ignore it, and light not shine on it.
3:5  May deepest darkness claim it and a cloud linger over it; may all that darkens the day terrify it.
3:6  May gloom seize that night; may it not be counted in the days of a year; may it not appear in the months.
3:7  May that night be childless; may no happy singing come in it.
3:8  May those who curse the day curse it, those with enough skill to awaken Leviathan.
3:9  May its evening stars stay dark; may it wait in vain for light; may it not see dawn’s gleam,
3:10  because it didn’t close the doors of my mother’s womb, didn’t hide trouble from my eyes.
3:11  Why didn’t I die at birth, come forth from the womb and die?
3:12  Why did knees receive me and breasts let me nurse?
3:13  For now I would be lying down quietly; I’d sleep; rest would be mine
3:14  with kings and earth’s advisors, who rebuild ruins for themselves,
3:15  or with princes who have gold, who fill their houses with silver.
3:16  Or why wasn’t I like a buried miscarried infant, like babies who never see light?
3:17  There the wicked rage no more; there the weak rest.
3:18  Prisoners are entirely at ease; they don’t hear a boss’s voice.
3:19  Both small and great are there; a servant is free from his masters.
3:20  Why is light given to the hard worker, life to those bitter of soul,
3:21  those waiting in vain for death, who search for it more than for treasure,
3:22  who rejoice excitedly, who are thrilled when they find a grave?
3:23  Why is light given to the person whose way is hidden, whom God has fenced in?
3:24  My groans become my bread; my roars pour out like water.
3:25  Because I was afraid of something awful, and it arrived; what I dreaded came to me.
3:26  I had no ease, quiet, or rest, and trembling came.