| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Afterward 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 to be born, And the night which said, 'A boy is conceived.' |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"May that day be darkness; Let not God above care for it, Nor light shine on it. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Let darkness and black gloom claim it; Let a cloud settle on it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"As for that night, let 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] | 7"Behold, let that night be barren; Let no joyful shout enter it. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Let those curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it wait for light but have none, And let it not see the breaking dawn; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Because it did not shut the opening of my mother's womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"For now 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 with counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Or with princes who had gold, Who were filling their houses with silver. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"The 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 suffers, And life to the bitter of soul, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Who long for death, but there is none, And dig for it more than for hidden treasures, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Who rejoice greatly, And exult when they find the grave? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in? |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread befalls me. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes." |
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