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And Job answered and said:
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Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
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Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.
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Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
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As for that night, let thick darkness 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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Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
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Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
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Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
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Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
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Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
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Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?