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3:1  Iyov said,
3:2  “Perish the day I was born and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’
3:3  May that day be darkness, may God on high not seek it, may no light shine on it,
3:4  may gloom dark as death defile it, may clouds settle on it, may it be terrified by its own blackness.
3:5  “As for that night, may thick darkness seize it, may it not be joined to the days of the year, may it not be numbered among the months;
3:6  may that night be desolate, may no cry of joy be heard in it;
3:7  may those who curse days curse it, those who[se curses] could rouse Livyatan;
3:8  may the stars of its twilight be dark, may it look for light but get none, may it never see the shimmer of dawn —
3:9  because it didn’t shut the doors of the womb I was in and shield my eyes from trouble.
3:10  “If I had been stillborn, if I had died at birth,
3:11  had there been no knees to receive me or breasts for me to suck.
3:12  Then I would be lying still and in peace, I would have slept and been at rest,
3:13  along with kings and their earthly advisers, who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
3:14  or with princes who had [plenty of] gold, who filled their houses with silver.
3:15  Or I could have been like a hidden, miscarried child that never saw light.
3:16  “There the wicked cease their raging, there the weary are at rest,
3:17  prisoners live at peace together without hearing a taskmaster’s yells.
3:18  Great and small alike are there, and the slave is free of his master.
3:19  “So why must light be given to the miserable and life to the bitter in spirit?
3:20  They long for death, but it never comes; they search for it more than for buried treasure;
3:21  when at last they find the grave, they are so happy they shout for joy.
3:22  [Why give light] to a man who wanders blindly, whom God shuts in on every side?
3:23  “My sighing serves in place of my food, and my groans pour out in a torrent;
3:24  for the thing I feared has overwhelmed me, what I dreaded has happened to me.
3:25  I have no peace, no quiet, no rest; and anguish keeps coming.”