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| 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and curseth his day. |
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2 And Job answered and said:
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3 Let the day perish wherein I was born,
And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
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4 Let that day be darkness;
Let not God from above seek for it,
Neither let the light shine upon it.
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5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;
Let a cloud dwell upon it;
Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
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6 As for that night, let thick darkness 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 Lo, let that night be barren;
Let no joyful voice come therein.
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8 Let them curse it that curse the day,
Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
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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 behold the eyelids of the morning:
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10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
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11 Why died I not from the womb?
Why did I not give up the breath when my mother bare me?
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Died I not – He wished that he had never been born. R5402:1
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12 Why did the knees receive me?
Or why 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 built up waste 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 a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
As infants that never saw light.
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17 There the wicked cease from troubling;
And there the weary are at rest.
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Be at rest – Asleep in the tomb, in sheol, in hades, in the grave. SM312:T, R4792:6
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18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
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19 The small and the 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 Who long for death, but it cometh not,
And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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22 Who 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 whom God hath hedged in?
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24 For my sighing cometh before I eat,
And my groanings are poured out like water.
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25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me,
And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
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26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;
But trouble cometh. |
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