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3:1  After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
3:2  Then Job answered and said:
3:3  “May the day I was born perish, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived!’
3:4  That day—may it be darkness; may God above not regard it; may no light shine on it.
3:5  May darkness and deep gloom reclaim it; may a cloud settle over it; may whatever blackens the day terrify it.
3:6  That night—may thick darkness seize it; may it not be included among the days of the year, nor be entered among the number of months.
3:7  Indeed, may that night be barren; may no joyful shout enter it.
3:8  May those who curse, curse the day— those ready to awaken Leviathan.
3:9  May its morning stars be darkened; may it hope for light but have none— may it never see the eyelids of dawn.
3:10  For it did not shut the doors of the womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
3:11  Why did I not die at birth and expire as I exited the womb?
3:12  Why did the knees welcome me, and breasts that I might nurse?
3:13  For now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep and at rest
3:14  with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves places now desolate,
3:15  with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
3:16  Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn, like infants who never saw light?
3:17  There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
3:18  Prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
3:19  Small and great are there; and slave is free from his master.
3:20  Why is light given to one who suffers and life to the bitter of soul,
3:21  to those who long for death, but it does not come, who dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
3:22  who are filled with gladness and rejoice when finding 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 instead of my bread, and my groans pour out like water.
3:25  For the thing I dreaded has come upon me, and what I feared has happened to me.
3:26  I have no ease, no quietness; I have no rest, but turmoil came.”