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

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And Job spake,
and said,

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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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Let that day be darkness;
let not God regard it from above,
neither let the light shine upon it.

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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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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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Lo,
let that night be solitary,
let no joyful voice come therein.

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Let them curse it that curse the day,
who are ready to raise up their mourning.

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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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Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb,
nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

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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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Why did the knees prevent me?
or why the breasts that I should suck?

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For now should I have lain still and been quiet,
I should have slept:
then had I been at rest,

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With kings and counsellors of the earth,
which build desolate places for themselves;

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

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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been;
as infants which never saw light.

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There the wicked cease from troubling;
and there the weary be at rest.

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There the prisoners rest together;
they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

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

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

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Which long for death,
but it cometh not;
and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

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Which rejoice exceedingly,
and are glad,
when they can find the grave?

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

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For my sighing cometh before I eat,
and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

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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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I was not in safety,
neither had I rest,
neither was I quiet;
yet trouble came.