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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1After this, Job spoke up solemnly, cursing the day he was born. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2This is what Job said: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Let the day when I was born be annihilated, along with the night when it was announced, 'It's a boy!' |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Let that day be dark; let God above not care about it; let no light shine over it. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Let darkness and deep gloom reclaim it; let clouds settle down on it; let blackness in mid-day terrify it. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Let darkness carry that night away; let it not take its place joyfully among the days of the year; let it not be entered into the calendar. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Yes, let that night be barren; let it not appear with its joyful shout. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Let whoever curses days curse it— those who are ready to awaken monsters. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Let the stars of its evening twilight be dark; let it hope for light but let there be none; let it not see the breaking rays of the dawn. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"Because that night refused to shut the doors of my mother's womb; it failed to keep me from seeing this trouble. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Why didn't I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Why was there a lap to hold me, and why were there breasts to nurse me? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"If I had died, I would be lying down by now, undisturbed, asleep, and at rest, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14along with kings and counselors of the earth, who used to build for themselves what are now only ruins, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15or princes who amassed gold for themselves, and who kept filling their houses with silver. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like babies who never saw the light? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17In that place, the wicked stop causing trouble, and there, those whose strength is exhausted are at rest. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18In that place, those who once were prisoners will be at ease together; they won't hear the voice of oppressors. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The unimportant and the important are both there, and the servant is free from his master. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"Why does God give light to the sufferer or life to the bitter person: |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21To those who are longing for death— even though it does not come? To those who search for it more than for hidden treasure? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22To those who are happy beyond measure when they reach their graves? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23To the formerly successful man who lost his way in life, and God fenced him in? |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"As far as I'm concerned, my food comes to me in the form of sighs, and my cries of anguish pour out like water. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For the dreaded thing that I feared has happened to me, what caused me to worry has engulfed me. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26I will not be at ease; I will not be quiet; I will not rest; because trouble has arrived." |
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