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3:1  After all this, Job finally opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
3:2  Job said,
3:3  “Scratch out the day I was born and the night that said, ‘A boy has been conceived!’
3:4  “That day— let it be pitch-black. Let Eloah above not even care about it. Let no light shine on it.
3:5  Let the darkness and long shadows claim it as their own. Let a dark cloud hang over it. Let the gloom terrify it.
3:6  “That night— let the blackness take it away. Let it not be included in the days of the year or be numbered among the months.
3:7  Let that night be empty. Let no joyful singing be heard in it.
3:8  Let those who curse the day (those who know how to wake up Leviathan) curse that night.
3:9  Let its stars turn dark before dawn. Let it hope for light and receive none. Let it not see the first light of dawn
3:10  because it did not shut the doors of the womb from which I came or hide my eyes from trouble.
3:11  “Why didn’t I die as soon as I was born and breathe my last breath when I came out of the womb?
3:12  Why did knees welcome me? Why did breasts let me nurse?
3:13  Instead of being alive, I would now be quietly lying down. I would now be sleeping peacefully.
3:14  I would be with the kings and the counselors of the world who built for themselves what are now ruins.
3:15  I would be with princes who had gold, who filled their homes with silver.
3:16  I would be buried like a stillborn baby. I would not exist. I would be like infants who never saw the light.
3:17  There the wicked stop their raging. There the weary are able to rest.
3:18  There the captives have no troubles at all. There they do not hear the shouting of the slave driver.
3:19  There you find both the unimportant and important people. There the slave is free from his master.
3:20  “Why give light to one in misery and life to those who find it so bitter,
3:21  to those who long for death but it never comes— though they dig for it more than for buried treasure?
3:22  They are ecstatic, delighted to find the grave.
3:23  Why give light to those whose paths have been hidden, to those whom Eloah has fenced in?
3:24  “When my food is in front of me, I sigh. I pour out my groaning like water.
3:25  What I fear most overtakes me. What I dread happens to me.
3:26  I have no peace! I have no quiet! I have no rest! And trouble keeps coming!”