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Job 2

The Book of Job

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Chapter 3

1

 

 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 

 


2

 

 And Job answered and said: 

 


3

 

 Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived. 

 


4

 

 Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it. 

 


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. 

 


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. 

 


7

 

 Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein. 

 


8

 

 Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan. 

 


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: 

 


10

 

 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes. 

 


11

 

 Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? 

 


12

 

 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? 

 


13

 

 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest, 

 


14

 

 With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves; 

 


15

 

 Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver: 

 


16

 

 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light. 

 


17

 

 There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. 

 


18

 

 There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster. 

 


19

 

 The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master. 

 


20

 

 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; 

 


21

 

 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures; 

 


22

 

 Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave? 

 


23

 

 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in? 

 


24

 

 For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water. 

 


25

 

 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me. 

 


26

 

 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh. 

 


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