Job 3:9-21
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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:
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10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
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12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
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13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
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17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
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20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;