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3:1  Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
3:2  Thus Job spoke up and said,
3:3  “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man-child is conceived.’
3:4  Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it.
3:5  Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let clouds settle on it; let them terrify it with the blackness of day.
3:6  Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months.
3:7  Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it.
3:8  Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan.
3:9  Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but there be none, and let it not see the eyelids of dawn
3:10  because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
3:11  “Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not come forth from the womb and expire?
3:12  Why did the knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck?
3:13  For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest
3:14  with kings and counselors of the earth, who rebuild ruins for themselves,
3:15  or with high officials who have gold, who fill up their houses with silver.
3:16  Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants who did not see the light?
3:17  There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest;
3:18  the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the oppressor’s voice.
3:19  The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his masters.
3:20  “Why does he give light to one in misery and life to those bitter of soul,
3:21  who wait for death, but it does not come, and search for it more than for treasures,
3:22  who rejoice exceedingly, and they are glad when they find the grave?
3:23  Why does he give light to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in all around?
3:24  For my sighing comes before my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water
3:25  because the dread that I feel has come upon me, and what I feared befalls me.
3:26  I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus turmoil has come.”