ASV_Strong : Job 3
1. After[H310] this opened[H6605] Job[H347] his mouth[H6310], and cursed[H7043] his day[H3117].
2. And Job[H347] answered[H6030] and said[H559]:
3. Let the day[H3117] perish[H6] wherein I was born[H3205], And the night[H3915] which said[H559], There is a man-child[H1397] conceived[H2029].
4. Let that day[H3117] be darkness[H2822]; Let not God[H433] from above[H4605] seek[H1875] for it[H5105], Neither let the light shine upon it[H3313].
5. Let darkness[H2822] and the shadow of death[H6757] claim[H1350] it for their own[H6053]; Let a cloud dwell[H7931] upon it[H3650]; Let all that maketh black the day[H3117] terrify it[H1204].
6. As for that night[H3915], let thick darkness[H652] seize[H3947] upon it[H2302]: Let it not rejoice among the days[H3117] of the year[H8141]; Let it not come[H935] into the number[H4557] of the months[H3391].
7. Lo[H3915], let that night be barren[H1565]; Let no joyful voice[H7445] come therein[H935].
8. Let them curse[H5344] it that curse[H779] the day[H3117], Who are ready[H6264] to rouse up[H5782] leviathan[H3882].
9. Let the stars[H3556] of the twilight[H5399] thereof be dark[H2821]: Let it look[H6960] for light[H216], but have none[H7200]; Neither let it behold the eyelids[H6079] of the morning[H7837]:
10. Because it shut not up[H5462] the doors[H1817] of my mother[H990]'s womb, Nor hid[H5641] trouble[H5999] from mine eyes[H5869].
11. Why died[H4191] I not from the womb[H7358]? Why did I not give up the ghost[H1478] when my mother[H990] bare me[H3318]?
12. Why did the knees[H1290] receive[H6923] me[H7699]? Or why the breast, that I should suck[H3243]?
13. For now should I have lain down[H7901] and been quiet[H8252]; I should have slept[H3462]; then had I been at rest[H5117],
14. With kings[H4428] and counsellors[H3289] of the earth[H776], Who built[H1129] up waste places for themselves[H2723];
15. Or with princes[H8269] that had gold[H2091], Who filled[H4390] their houses[H1004] with silver[H3701]:
16. Or as a hidden[H2934] untimely birth[H5309] I had not been[H5768], As infants that never saw[H7200] light[H216].
17. There the wicked[H7563] cease[H2308] from troubling[H7267]; And there the weary[H3019] are at rest[H5117].
18. There the prisoners[H615] are at ease[H7599] together[H3162]; They hear[H8085] not the voice[H6963] of the taskmaster[H5065].
19. The small[H6996] and the great[H1419] are there[H5650]: And the servant is free[H2670] from his master[H113].
20. Wherefore is light[H216] given[H5414] to him that is in misery[H6001], And life[H2416] unto the bitter[H4751] in soul[H5315];
21. Who long[H2442] for death[H4194], but it cometh not[H2658], And dig for it more than for hid treasures[H4301];
22. Who rejoice[H8056] exceedingly[H1524], And are glad[H7797], when they can find[H4672] the grave[H6913]?
23. Why is light given to a man[H1397] whose way[H1870] is hid[H5641], And whom God[H433] hath hedged in[H5526]?
24. For my sighing[H585] cometh[H935] before[H6440] I eat[H3899], And my groanings[H7581] are poured out[H5413] like water[H4325].
25. For the thing which I fear[H6342] cometh[H857] upon me[H3025], And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me[H935].
26. I am not at ease[H8252], neither am I quiet[H8252], neither have I rest[H8252]; But trouble[H7267] cometh[H935].
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