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Job 3 📜 📕 ↷
Job Laments His Birth
1 AFTER these things Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,📜💬📚
2 and spake.📜💬📚
3 Perish may the day wherein I was born, & the night wherein it was said: A man is conceived.📜💬📚
4 Be that day turned into darkness, God require it not from above, and let it not be lightened with light.📜💬📚
5 Let darkness, and the shadow of death obscure it, let a mist possess it, and be it wrapped in bitterness.📜💬📚
6 A darksome hurl wind possess that night, be it not counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.📜💬📚
7 Be that night solitary, nor praise-worthy.📜💬📚
8 Let them curse it which curse the day, which are ready to raise up Leviathan.📜💬📚
9 Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light and let it not see, neither the rising of the appearing morning.📜💬📚
10 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bare me, nor took away evils from mine eyes.📜💬📚
11 Why died I not in the matrice, perished not forthwith being come forth of the womb?📜💬📚
12 Why received upon the knees: why nursed with the breasts?📜💬📚
13 For now sleeping I should be quiet, and should rest in my sleep:📜💬📚
14 With kings and consuls of the earth, which build themselves solitary places:📜💬📚
15 Or with Princes, that posses gold, and replenish their houses with silver:📜💬📚
16 Or as a thing untimely born that is hid I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.📜💬📚
17 There the impious have ceased from tumult, & there the wearied with strength have rested.📜💬📚
18 And they sometime bound together without grief, have not heard the voice of the exactor.📜💬📚
19 Little and great are there, and the servant free from his master.📜💬📚
20 Why is there light given to a miserable man, and life to them, that are in bitterness of soul,📜💬📚
21 that expect death, and it cometh not, as they that dig up treasure,📜💬📚
22 and they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave?📜💬📚
23 To a man whose life is hid, and God hath compassed him with darkness?📜💬📚
24 Before I eat I sigh: and as it were overflowing waters, so my roaring:📜💬📚
25 Because the fear which I feared, hath chanced to me: and that which I was afraid of, hath happened.📜💬📚
26 Have I not dissembled? Have I not kept silence? Have I not been at ease? And indignation is come upon me.📜💬📚
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