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3:1  After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
3:2  Job said:
3:3  “Let the day perish in which I was born and the night in which it was said, ‘A male child is conceived.’
3:4  As for that day, let it be darkness; let God above not regard it; and let not light shine upon it.
3:5  Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
3:6  As for that night, let darkness capture it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
3:7  Yes, as for that night, let it be barren! Let no joyful cry come into it!
3:8  Let them curse it who curse any day, those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
3:9  Let its morning stars be dark; let it look for light, but have none; let it not see the rays of dawn,
3:10  because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
3:11  “Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?
3:12  Why did her knees receive me? And why her breasts that I should nurse?
3:13  For now I would be lying down and would be at peace; I would have slept; then there would be rest for me,
3:14  with kings and counselors of the earth, who built ruins for themselves,
3:15  or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
3:16  Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw light?
3:17  There the wicked will have stopped causing trouble, and there the exhausted will rest.
3:18  Captives will relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
3:19  The small and great, they are there, and the servant is free from his master.
3:20  “Why is light given to the miserable, and life unto the bitter in soul,
3:21  who look for death, but it is not there; and they search for it more than for hidden treasures;
3:22  who rejoice exceedingly, and they are glad when they find the grave?
3:23  And why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
3:24  For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groaning pours forth like the waters.
3:25  For the thing which I greatly feared has happened to me, and that which I dreaded has come to me.
3:26  I am not at peace; I have no quiet, I cannot rest, and turmoil has come.”