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Job Chapter 3American Standard2: And Job answered and said: 3: Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived. 4: Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it. 5: Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it. 6: As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months. 7: Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein. 8: Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan. 9: Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning: 10: Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes. 11: Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? 12: Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? 13: For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest, 14: With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves; 15: Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver: 16: Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light. 17: There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. 18: There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster. 19: The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master. 20: Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; 21: Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22: Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave? 23: [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in? 24: For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water. 25: For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me. 26: I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.
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