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            <div class="label">3</div><div class="s"><span class="heading">Job&#8217;s Lament</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his </span><span class="it"><span class="content">birth.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And Job said,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let the day perish on which I was to be born,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">And the night </span><span class="it"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8216;A boy is conceived.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">May that day be darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">Let not God above care for it,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">Nor light shine on it.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let darkness and black gloom claim it;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">Let a cloud settle on it;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">Let the blackness of the day terrify it.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">As for</span></span><span class="content"> that night, let darkness seize it;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">Let it not come into the number of the months.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Behold, let that night be barren;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">Let no joyful shout enter it.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let those curse it who curse the day,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Let the stars of its twilight be darkened;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">Let it wait for light but have none,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">And let it not see the breaking dawn;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Because it did not shut the opening of my </span><span class="it"><span class="content">mother&#8217;s</span></span><span class="content"> womb,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">Or hide trouble from my eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why did I not die at birth,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">Come forth from the womb and expire?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why did the knees receive me,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">And why the breasts, that I should suck?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For now I would have lain down and been quiet;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">With kings and </span><span class="it"><span class="content">with</span></span><span class="content"> counselors of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Or with princes who had gold,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">Who were filling their houses </span><span class="it"><span class="content">with</span></span><span class="content"> silver.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">As infants that never saw light.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">There the wicked cease from raging,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">And there the weary are at rest.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The prisoners are at ease together;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The small and the great are there,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">And the slave is free from his master.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why is light given to him who suffers,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">And life to the bitter of soul,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Who long for death, but there is none,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">And dig for it more than for hidden treasures,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Who rejoice greatly,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> exult when they find the grave?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">Why is light given</span></span><span class="content"> to a man whose way is hidden,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">And whom God has hedged in?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">And my cries pour out like water.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For what I fear comes upon me,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">And what I dread befalls me.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I am not at ease, nor am I quiet,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="content">And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. And Job said,
“Let the day perish on which I was to be born,
And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
May that day be darkness;
Let not God above care for it,
Nor light shine on it.
Let darkness and black gloom claim it;
Let a cloud settle on it;
Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
As for that night, let darkness seize it;
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
Let it not come into the number of the months.
Behold, let that night be barren;
Let no joyful shout enter it.
Let those curse it who curse the day,
Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Let the stars of its twilight be darkened;
Let it wait for light but have none,
And let it not see the breaking dawn;
Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.
“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?
Why did the knees receive me,
And why the breasts, that I should suck?
For now I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
With kings and with counselors of the earth,
Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
Or with princes who had gold,
Who were filling their houses with silver.
Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be,
As infants that never saw light.
There the wicked cease from raging,
And there the weary are at rest.
The prisoners are at ease together;
They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
The small and the great are there,
And the slave is free from his master.
“Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,
Who long for death, but there is none,
And dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
Who rejoice greatly,
And exult when they find the grave?
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?
For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries pour out like water.
For what I fear comes upon me,
And what I dread befalls me.
I am not at ease, nor am I quiet,
And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes.”

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