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3:1  Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
3:2  And Job said,
3:3  “May the day on which I was to be born perish, As well as the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
3:4  May that day be darkness; May God above not care for it, Nor light shine on it.
3:5  May darkness and black gloom 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  Behold, may that night be barren; May no joyful shout enter it.
3:8  May those curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to disturb Leviathan.
3:9  May the stars of its twilight be darkened; May it wait for light but have none, And may it not see the breaking dawn;
3:10  Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes.
3:11  “Why did I not die at birth, Come out of the womb and pass away?
3:12  Why were the knees there in front of me, And why the breasts, that I would nurse?
3:13  For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
3:14  With kings and counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
3:15  Or with rulers who had gold, Who were filling their houses with silver.
3:16  Or like a miscarriage which is hidden, I would not exist, As infants that never saw light.
3:17  There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest.
3:18  The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
3:19  The small and the great are there, And the slave is free from his master.
3:20  “Why is light given to one burdened with grief, And life to the bitter of soul,
3:21  Who long for death, but there is none, And dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
3:22  Who are filled with jubilation, And rejoice when they find the grave?
3:23  Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has shut off?
3:24  For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.
3:25  For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread encounters me.
3:26  I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes.”