Job 3:7-16

1. 7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

2. 8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

3. 9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

4. 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

5. 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

6. 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

7. 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

8. 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

9. 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

10. 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

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