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Job 3

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

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After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,

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saying,

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Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a man-child!

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Let that night be darkness, and let not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it.

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But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it;

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let that day and night be cursed, let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year, neither let it be numbered with the days of the months.

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But let that night be pain, and let not mirth come upon it, nor joy.

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But let him that curses that day curse it, [even] he that is ready to attack the great whale.

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Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain [dark], and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise:

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because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for [so] it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.

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For why died I not in the belly? and [why] did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?

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And why did the knees support me? and why did I suck the breasts?

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Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,

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with kings [and] councillors of the earth, who gloried in [their] swords;

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or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver:

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or [I should have been] as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.

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There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest.

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And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice.

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The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord.

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For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to the souls which are in griefs?

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who desire death, and obtain it not, digging [for it] as [for] treasures;

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and would be very joyful if they should gain it?

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Death [is] rest to [such] a man, for God has hedged him in.

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For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror.

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For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.

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I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.

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