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Job's
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| Job 3:1 |
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Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the
day of his birth. |
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| Job 3:2 |
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And Job said, |
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| Job 3:3 |
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"Let the day perish on which I was to be born,
And the night which said, 'A boy is conceived.' |
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| Job 3:4 |
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"May that day be darkness; Let not God above
care for it, Nor light shine on it. |
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| Job 3:5 |
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"Let darkness and black gloom claim it; Let
a cloud settle on it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it. |
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| Job 3:6 |
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"As for that night, let darkness seize 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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| Job 3:7 |
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"Behold, let that night be barren; Let no joyful
shout enter it. |
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| Job 3:8 |
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"Let those curse it who curse the day, Who are
prepared to rouse Leviathan. |
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| Job 3:9 |
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"Let the stars of its twilight be darkened;
Let it wait for light but have none, And let it not see the breaking dawn; |
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| Job 3:10 |
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Because it did not shut the opening of my mother's
womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes. |
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| Job 3:11 |
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"Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from
the womb and expire? |
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| Job 3:12 |
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"Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts,
that I should suck? |
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| Job 3:13 |
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"For now I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest, |
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| Job 3:14 |
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With kings and with counselors of the earth,
Who rebuilt ruins for themselves; |
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| Job 3:15 |
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Or with princes who had gold, Who were filling
their houses with silver. |
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| Job 3:16 |
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"Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I
would not be, As infants that never saw light. |
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| Job 3:17 |
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"There the wicked cease from raging, And there
the weary are at rest. |
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| Job 3:18 |
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"The prisoners are at ease together; They do
not hear the voice of the taskmaster. |
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| Job 3:19 |
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"The small and the great are there, And the
slave is free from his master. |
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| Job 3:20 |
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"Why is light given to him who suffers, And
life to the bitter of soul, |
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| Job 3:21 |
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Who long for death, but there is none, And dig
for it more than for hidden treasures, |
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| Job 3:22 |
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Who rejoice greatly, And exult when they find
the grave? |
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| Job 3:23 |
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"Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in? |
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| Job 3:24 |
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"For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries pour out like water. |
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| Job 3:25 |
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"For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread
befalls me. |
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| Job 3:26 |
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"I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, And I am
not at rest, but turmoil comes." |
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