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Job
3
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1
After all this, Job [finally] opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
(GWT)
Job
3
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3
"Scratch out the day I was born and the night that said, 'A boy has been conceived!'
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Job
3
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4
"That day- let it be pitch-black. Let God above not [even] care about it. Let no light shine on it.
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Job
3
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5
Let the darkness and long shadows claim it as their own. Let a dark cloud hang over it. Let the gloom terrify it.
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Job
3
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6
"That night- let the blackness take it away. Let it not be included in the days of the year or be numbered among the months.
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Job
3
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7
Let that night be empty. Let no joyful singing be heard in it.
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Job
3
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8
Let those who curse the day (those who know how to wake up Leviathan) curse that night.
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Job
3
:
9
Let its stars turn dark before dawn. Let it hope for light and receive none. Let it not see the first light of dawn
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Job
3
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10
because it did not shut the doors of the womb [from which I came] or hide my eyes from trouble.
(GWT)
Job
3
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11
"Why didn't I die as soon as I was born and breathe my last breath when I came out of the womb?
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Job
3
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12
Why did knees welcome me? Why did breasts let me nurse?
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Job
3
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13
Instead of being alive, I would now be quietly lying down. I would now be sleeping peacefully.
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Job
3
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14
I would be with the kings and the counselors of the world who built for themselves [what are now] ruins.
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Job
3
:
15
I would be with princes who had gold, who filled their homes with silver.
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Job
3
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16
I would be buried like a stillborn baby. I would not exist. I would be like infants who never saw the light.
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Job
3
:
17
There the wicked stop their raging. There the weary are able to rest.
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Job
3
:
18
There the captives have no troubles at all. There they do not hear the shouting of the slave driver.
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Job
3
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19
There [you find] both the unimportant and important people. There the slave is free from his master.
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Job
3
:
20
"Why give light to one in misery and life to those who find it so bitter,
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Job
3
:
21
to those who long for death but it never comes- though they dig for it more than for buried treasure?
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Job
3
:
22
They are ecstatic, delighted to find the grave.
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Job
3
:
23
Why give light to those whose paths have been hidden, to those whom God has fenced in?
(GWT)
Job
3
:
24
"When my food is in front of me, I sigh. I pour out my groaning like water.
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Job
3
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25
What I fear most overtakes me. What I dread happens to me.
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Job
3
:
26
I have no peace! I have no quiet! I have no rest! And trouble keeps coming!"