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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 Job said: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3“Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’ |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6That night—let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11“Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves, |
| 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 as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes.” |
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