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| 1 After this, opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. |
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| 2 So then Job began, and said: |
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| 3 Perish, the day wherein I was born, and the night it was said, Lo! a manchild! |
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| 4 That day, be it darkness,–Let not God enquire after it from above, May there shine upon it no clear beam: |
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| 5 Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day's dark eclipse cause it terror: |
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| 6 That night, darkness take it,–May it not rejoice among the days of the year, Into the number of months, let it not enter. |
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| 7 Lo! that night, be it barren, Let no joyous shouting enter therein: |
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| 8 Let day-cursers denounce it, Those skilled in rousing the dragon of the sky: |
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| 9 Darkened be the stars of its twilight,–Let it wait for light, and there be none, neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn: |
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| 10 Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes. |
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| 11 Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe? |
Died I not – He wished that he had never been born. R5402:1
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| 12 For what reason, were there prepared for me–knees? and why–breasts, that I might suck? |
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| 13 Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest: |
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| 14 With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids: |
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| 15 Or with rulers possessing, gold,–Who had filled their houses with silver: |
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| 16 Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light: |
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| 17 There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn 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 At once are prisoners at peace, they hear not the voice of a driver: |
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| 19 Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master. |
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| 20 Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul?– |
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| 21 Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures: |
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| 22 Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave: |
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| 23 To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him? |
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| 24 For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans: |
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| 25 For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me. |
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| 26 I was not careless, nor was I secure, nor had I settled down,–when there came–consternation! |
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