- After this Job opened his mouth and
cursed the day of his birth.
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And Job spoke, and said:
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"May the day perish on which I was born,
and the night in which it was said, (Job 20:14-18)
'A male child is conceived.'
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May that day be darkness;
may God above not seek it,
nor the light shine upon it.
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May darkness and the shadow of death claim it;
may a cloud settle on it;
may the blackness of the day terrify it. (Ps. 23:4; Jer. 13:16)
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As for that night, may darkness seize it;
may it not be included among the days of the year,
may it not come into the number of the months.
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Oh, may that night be barren!
May no joyful shout come into it!
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May those curse it who curse the day,
those who are ready to arouse Leviathan. (Jer. 9:17)
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May the stars of its morning be dark;
may it look for light, but have none,
and not see the dawning of the day;
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Because it did not shut up the door of my mother's womb,
nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
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"Why did I not die at birth?
Why did I not perish when I came from the womb? (Jer.
20:17)
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Why did the knees receive me?
or
why the breasts, that I should nurse? (Gen.
30:3)
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For now I would have lain still and be quiet,
I would have been asleep;
then I would have been at rest (Job 10:18)
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With kings and counsellors of the earth,
who built ruins for themselves,
(Job 15:28)
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Or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver;
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Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, (Ps. 58:8)
like infants who never saw light?
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There the wicked cease from troubling,
and there the weary are at rest. (Job 17:16)
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There the prisoners rest together;
they do not hear the voice of the oppressor. (Job 39:7)
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The small and great are there,
and the servant is free from his master.
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"Why is light given to him who is in misery,
and life to the bitter of soul, (Jer.
20:18; 2 Kin. 4:27)
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Who long for death, but it does not come,
and search for it more than hidden treasures; (Prov. 2:4)
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Who rejoice exceedingly, and are
glad when they can find the grave? (Job 7:15-16)
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Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
and whom God has hedged in? (Job 19:8)
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For my sighing comes before I eat,
and my groanings pour out like water. (Job 33:20)
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For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me,
and what I dreaded has happened to me. (Job 9:28; Job 30:15)
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I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
I have no rest for trouble comes."
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