1 | After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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2 | And Job spake, and said,
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3 | Let the day perish wherein I was born, 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 whom God hath hedged
in?
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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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