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1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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At length, Iyov broke the silence and cursed the day of his [birth].
2 And Job spake, and said,
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Iyov said,
3 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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"Perish the day I was born and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.'
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
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May that day be darkness, may God on high not seek it, may no light shine on it,
5 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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may gloom dark as death defile it, may clouds settle on it, may it be terrified by its own blackness.
6 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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"As for that night, may thick darkness seize it, may it not be joined to the days of the year, may it not be numbered among the months;
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
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may that night be desolate, may no cry of joy be heard in it;
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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may those who curse days curse it, those who[se curses] could rouse Livyatan;
9 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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may the stars of its twilight be dark, may it look for light but get none, may it never see the shimmer of dawn
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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because it didn't shut the doors of the womb I was in and shield my eyes from trouble.
11 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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"If I had been stillborn, if I had died at birth,
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
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had there been no knees to receive me or breasts for me to suck.
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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Then I would be lying still and in peace, I would have slept and been at rest,
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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along with kings and their earthly advisers, who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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or with princes who had [plenty of] gold, who filled their houses with silver.
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
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Or I could have been like a hidden, miscarried child that never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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"There the wicked cease their raging, there the weary are at rest,
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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prisoners live at peace together without hearing a taskmaster's yells.
19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
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Great and small alike are there, and the slave is free of his master.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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"So why must light be given to the miserable and life to the bitter in spirit?
21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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They long for death, but it never comes; they search for it more than for buried treasure;
22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
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when at last they find the grave, they are so happy they shout for joy.
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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[Why give light] to a man who wanders blindly, whom God shuts in on every side?
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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"My sighing serves in place of my food, and my groans pour out in a torrent;
25 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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for the thing I feared has overwhelmed me, what I dreaded has happened to me.
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
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I have no peace, no quiet, no rest; and anguish keeps coming."