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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And this is what he said: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’ |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.” |
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