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The Book of Job
Chapter 3
Job expresseth his sense of the miseries of man's life, by cursing the day of his birth.
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After this, Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day, |
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And he said: |
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Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived. |
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Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it. |
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Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness. |
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Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months. |
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Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise. |
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Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan: |
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Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day: |
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Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes. |
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Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly? |
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Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts? |
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For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep: |
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With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes: |
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Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with silver: |
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Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light. |
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There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest. |
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And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor. |
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The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master. |
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Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul? |
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That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure: |
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And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave? |
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To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness? |
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Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring: |
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For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me. |
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Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me. |
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