Job, Chapter 3, verses 4-13

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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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“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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“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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“Behold, let that night be barren;
Let no joyful shout enter it.

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“Let those curse it who curse the day,
Who are^dprepared to rouse Leviathan.

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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^ebreaking dawn;

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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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“Why did I not die^fat birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?

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“Why did the knees receive me,
And why the breasts, that I should suck?

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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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