Book 29 : KETUVIM - JOB - Chapter 003
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After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day
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And Job spoke, and said
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Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night
wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.
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Let that day be darkness; let not G-d inquire after it from
above, neither let the light shine upon it
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Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their
own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it
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As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it; let it
not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the
months
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Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come
therein
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Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to
rouse up leviathan
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Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look
for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning
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Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor
hid trouble from mine eyes
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Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at
birth
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Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts,
that I should suck
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For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should
have slept; then had I been at rest-
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With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up
waste places for themselves
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Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses
with silver
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Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants
that never saw light
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There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary
are at rest
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There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not
the voice of the taskmaster
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The small and great are there alike; and the servant is
free from his master
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Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and
life unto the bitter in soul-
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Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more
than for hid treasures
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Who rejoice unto exultation, and are glad, when they can
find the grave?-
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To a man whose way is hid, and whom G-d hath hedged in
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For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings
are poured out like water
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For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that
which I was afraid of hath overtaken me
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I was not at ease, neither was I quiet, neither had I
rest; but trouble came
Book 29 : KETUVIM - JOB - Chapter 003
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