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Job 3
Job 3
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
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At last Job spoke and cursed the day of his birth.
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“Let the day of my birth be cursed,“
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he said, “and the night when I was conceived.
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Let that day be forever forgotten. Let it be lost even to God, shrouded in eternal darkness.
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Yes, let the darkness claim it for its own, and may a black cloud overshadow it.
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May it be blotted off the calendar, never again to be counted among the days of the month of that year.
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Let that night be bleak and joyless.
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Let those who are experts at cursing curse it.
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Let the stars of the night disappear. Let it long for light but never see it, never see the morning light.
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Curse it for its failure to shut my mother's womb, for letting me be born to come to all this trouble.
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“Why didn't I die at birth?
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Why did the midwife let me live? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?
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For if only I had died at birth, then I would be quiet now, asleep and at rest,
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along with prime ministers and kings with all their pomp,
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and wealthy princes whose castles are full of rich treasures.
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Oh, to have been stillborn!—to have never breathed or seen the light.
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For there in death the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
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There even prisoners are at ease, with no brutal jailer to curse them.
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Both rich and poor alike are there, and the slave is free at last from his master.
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“Oh, why should light and life be given to those in misery and bitterness, who long
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for death, and it won't come; who search for death as others search for food or money?
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What blessed relief when at last they die!
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Why is a man allowed to be born if God is only going to give him a hopeless life of uselessness and frustration?
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I cannot eat for sighing; my groans pour out like water.
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What I always feared has happened to me.
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I was not fat and lazy, yet trouble struck me down.“
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