chapter_Job_3
Job 3:1: After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day. Job 3:2: And Job answereth and saith: &#8212; Job 3:3: Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: 'A man-child hath been conceived.' Job 3:4: That day &#8212; let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it. Job 3:5: Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days. Job 3:6: That night &#8212; let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come. Job 3:7: Lo! that night &#8212; let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it. Job 3:8: Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan. Job 3:9: Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn. Job 3:10: Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes. Job 3:11: Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp! Job 3:12: Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I suck? Job 3:13: For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept &#8212; then there is rest to me, Job 3:14: With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves. Job 3:15: Or with princes &#8212; they have gold, They are filling their houses with silver. Job 3:16: (Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants &#8212; they have not seen light.) Job 3:17: There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power. Job 3:18: Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor, Job 3:19: Small and great are there the same. And a servant is free from his lord. Job 3:20: Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul? Job 3:21: Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures. Job 3:22: Who are glad &#8212; unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave. Job 3:23: To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up? Job 3:24: For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters are my roarings. Job 3:25: For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me. Job 3:26: I was not safe &#8212; nor was I quiet &#8212; Nor was I at rest &#8212; and trouble cometh!
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