1After[H310] this opened[H6605]Job[H347] his mouth[H6310], and cursed[H7043] his day[H3117].
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And Job[H347]spake[H6030], and said[H559],
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Let the day[H3117]perish[H6] wherein I was born[H3205], and the night[H3915] in which it was said[H559], There is a man child[H1397]conceived[H2029].
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Let that day[H3117] be darkness[H2822]; let not God[H433]regard[H1875] it from above[H4605], neither let the light[H5105]shine[H3313] upon it.
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Let darkness[H2822] and the shadow of death[H6757]stain[H1350] it; let a cloud[H6053]dwell[H7931] upon it; let the blackness[H3650] of the day[H3117]terrify[H1204] it.
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As for that night[H3915], let darkness[H652]seize[H3947] upon it; let it not be joined[H2302] unto the days[H3117] of the year[H8141], let it not come[H935] into the number[H4557] of the months[H3391].
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Lo, let that night[H3915] be solitary[H1565], let no joyful voice[H7445]come[H935] therein.
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Let them curse[H5344] it that curse[H779] the day[H3117], who are ready[H6264] to raise up[H5782] their mourning[H3882].
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Let the stars[H3556] of the twilight[H5399] thereof be dark[H2821]; let it look[H6960] for light[H216], but have none; neither let it see[H7200] the dawning[H6079] of the day[H7837]:
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Because it shut not up[H5462] the doors[H1817] of my mother's womb[H990], nor hid[H5641]sorrow[H5999] from mine eyes[H5869].
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Why died[H4191] I not from the womb?[H7358] why did I not give up the ghost[H1478] when I came out[H3318] of the belly?[H990]
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Why did the knees[H1290]prevent[H6923] me? or why the breasts[H7699] that I should suck?[H3243]
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For now should I have lain still[H7901] and been quiet[H8252], I should have slept[H3462]: then had I been at rest[H5117],
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With kings[H4428] and counsellors[H3289] of the earth[H776], which built[H1129] desolate places[H2723] for themselves;
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Or with princes[H8269] that had gold[H2091], who filled[H4390] their houses[H1004] with silver[H3701]:
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Or as an hidden[H2934] untimely birth[H5309] I had not been; as infants[H5768] which never saw[H7200]light[H216].
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There the wicked[H7563]cease[H2308] from troubling[H7267]; and there the weary[H3019] be at rest[H5117].
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There the prisoners[H615]rest[H7599]together[H3162]; they hear[H8085] not the voice[H6963] of the oppressor[H5065].
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The small[H6996] and great[H1419] are there; and the servant[H5650] is free[H2670] from his master[H113].
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Wherefore is light[H216]given[H5414] to him that is in misery[H6001], and life[H2416] unto the bitter[H4751] in soul[H5315];
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Which long[H2442] for death[H4194], but it cometh not; and dig[H2658] for it more than for hid treasures[H4301];
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Which rejoice[H8056]exceedingly[H1524], and are glad[H7797], when they can find[H4672] the grave?[H6913]
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Why is light given to a man[H1397] whose way[H1870] is hid[H5641], and whom God[H433] hath hedged in?[H5526]
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For my sighing[H585]cometh[H935]before[H6440] I eat[H3899], and my roarings[H7581] are poured out[H5413] like the waters[H4325].
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For the thing which I greatly[H6343]feared[H6342] is come[H857] upon me, and that which I was afraid[H3025] of is come[H935] unto me.
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I was not in safety[H7951], neither had I rest[H8252], neither was I quiet[H5117]; yet trouble[H7267]came[H935].