Book - Job - Chapter = 3 --> NLT
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At last Job spoke, and he cursed the day of his birth.
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He said:
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"Cursed be the day of my birth, and cursed be the night when I was conceived.
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Let that day be turned to darkness. Let it be lost even to God on high, and let it be shrouded in darkness.
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Yes, let the darkness and utter gloom claim it for its own. Let a black cloud overshadow it, and let the darkness terrify it.
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Let that night be blotted off the calendar, never again to be counted among the days of the year, never again to appear among the months.
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Let that night be barren. Let it have no joy.
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Let those who are experts at cursing--those who are ready to rouse the sea monster--curse that day.
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Let its morning stars remain dark. Let it hope for light, but in vain; may 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 all this trouble.
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"Why didn't I die at birth as I came from the womb?
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Why did my mother let me live? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?
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For if I had died at birth, I would be at peace now, asleep and at rest.
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I would rest with the world's kings and prime ministers, famous for their great construction projects.
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I would rest with wealthy princes whose palaces were filled with gold and silver.
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Why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like a baby who never lives to see the light?
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For in death the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.
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Even prisoners are at ease in death, with no guards to curse them.
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Rich and poor are there alike, and the slave is free from his master.
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"Oh, why should light be given to the weary, and life to those in misery?
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They long for death, and it won't come. They search for death more eagerly than for hidden treasure.
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It is a blessed relief when they finally die, when they find the grave.
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Why is life given to those with no future, those destined by God to live in distress?
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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. What I dreaded has come to be.
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I have no peace, no quietness. I have no rest; instead, only trouble comes."