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| 1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. |
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| 2 And Job answered and said, |
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| 3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived. |
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| 4 That day--let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it: |
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| 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it. |
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| 6 That night--let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. |
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| 7 Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein; |
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| 8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan; |
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| 9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn: |
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| 10 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes. |
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| 11 Wherefore did I not die from the womb, --come forth from the belly and expire? |
Died I not – He wished that he had never been born. R5402:1
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| 12 Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck? |
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| 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest, |
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| 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves, |
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| 15 Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver; |
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| 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light. |
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| 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest. |
Be at rest – Asleep in the tomb, in sheol, in hades, in the grave. SM312:T, R4792:6
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| 18 The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. |
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| 19 The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master. |
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| 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul, |
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| 21 Who long for death, and it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; |
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| 22 Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? -- |
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| 23 To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in? |
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| 24 For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters. |
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| 25 For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me. |
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| 26 I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came. |
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