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New International Version NIV
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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That night—may thick darkness seize it; may it not be included among the days of the year nor be entered in any of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
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May that night be barren; may no shout 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 that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.
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 its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays 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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for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.
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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“Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
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Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?
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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For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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with kings and rulers of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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with princes who had 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 why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?
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