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Job 3

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

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And Job answered and said,

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Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.

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That day -- let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:

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Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.

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That night -- let gloom seize upon 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 sound come therein;

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Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;

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Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

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Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

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Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -- come forth from the belly and expire?

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Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

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

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

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Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

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Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

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There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.

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The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

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The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.

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Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

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Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

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Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? --

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To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?

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For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

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For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.

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I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.

Job 4

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And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

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If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?

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Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands;

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Thy words have upholden him that was stumbling, and thou hast braced up the bending knees:

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But now it is come upon thee, and thou grievest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

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Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?

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Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?

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Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.

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By the breath of +God they perish, and by the blast of his nostrils are they consumed.

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The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken;

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The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

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Now to me a word was secretly brought, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.

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In thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men: --

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Fear came on me, and trembling, and made all my bones to shake;

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And a spirit passed before my face -- the hair of my flesh stood up --

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It stood still; I could not discern the appearance thereof: a form was before mine eyes; I heard a slight murmur and a voice:

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Shall [mortal] man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?

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Lo, he trusteth not his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly:

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How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!

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From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.

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Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.

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