Job 3

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        Job 3
      
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         1.  After this opened Job his mouth, and 
      
      
        <b>cursed his day.</b>
      
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         2.  And Job spake, and said,
      
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        <b>3.  Let the day perish wherein I was born</b>
      
      
        , and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
      
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         4.  Let that day be darkness, let not God regard it from above, neither let the light 
        shine upon it.
      
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         5.  Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it, let a cloud dwell upon it, let the 
        blackness of the day terrify it.
      
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         6.  As for that night, let darkness seize upon it, let it not be joined unto the days of 
        the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
      
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         7.  Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
      
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         8.  Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
      
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         9.  Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark, let it look for light, but have none, 
        neither let it see the dawning of the day:
      
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         10.  Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
      
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         11.  Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the Ghost when I came out of the 
        belly?
      
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         12.  Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
      
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         13.  For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I 
        been at rest,
      
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         14.  With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves,
      
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         15.  Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
      
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         16.  Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants which never saw light.
      
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         17.  There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
      
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         18.  There the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
      
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         19.  The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
      
      
        
      
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         20.  Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul,
      
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         21.  Which long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures,
      
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         22.  Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
      
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         23.  Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and 
      
      
        <b>whom God hath hedged in?</b>
      
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        24.  For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
      
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         25.  For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of 
        is come unto me.
      
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         26.  I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet, yet trouble came.
      
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