1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

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Jeremiah 20:14, Jeremiah 20:15, Jeremiah 20:14, Jeremiah 20:15, Psalms 106:33

2Job answered:

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Judges 18:14, Judges 18:14

3"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

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Jeremiah 15:10, Jeremiah 20:14, Jeremiah 20:18, Job 10:18, Job 10:19

4Let that day be darkness. Do not let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

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Revelation 16:10, Matthew 27:45, Acts 27:20, Amos 5:18, Exodus 10:22

5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

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Job 10:21, Job 10:22, Psalms 23:4, Job 10:21, Job 10:22

6As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

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7Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

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Isaiah 24:8, Jeremiah 7:34, Revelation 18:22, Revelation 18:23, Isaiah 13:20

8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

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Job 41:1, Job 41:1, Job 41:10, Job 41:10, Job 41:25

9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

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Job 41:18, Job 41:18, Job 30:26, Jeremiah 13:16, Jeremiah 8:15

10because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

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Ecclesiastes 6:3, Ecclesiastes 6:5, Ecclesiastes 6:3, Ecclesiastes 6:5, 1 Samuel 1:5

11"Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

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Isaiah 46:3, Job 10:18, Job 10:19, Isaiah 46:3, Job 10:18

12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

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Genesis 30:3, Isaiah 66:12, Genesis 30:3, Isaiah 66:12, Genesis 50:23

13For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

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Job 17:13, Job 19:27, Job 7:21, Job 21:23, Job 14:10

14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

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Job 15:28, Job 15:28, Isaiah 14:10, Isaiah 14:16, Isaiah 14:10

15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

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Job 27:16, Job 27:17, Zephaniah 1:18, Isaiah 2:7, Job 22:25

16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

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Psalms 58:8, Psalms 58:8, Ecclesiastes 6:3, Ecclesiastes 6:3, 1 Corinthians 15:8

17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

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Revelation 14:13, Revelation 14:13, Job 17:16, Job 17:16, Job 14:13

18There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

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Job 39:7, Job 39:7, Judges 4:3, Isaiah 14:3, Isaiah 14:4

19The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

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Job 30:23, Job 30:23, Hebrews 9:27, Ecclesiastes 8:8, Ecclesiastes 12:7

20"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

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Jeremiah 20:18, Jeremiah 20:18, Job 7:15, Job 7:16, Job 7:15

21Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

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Revelation 9:6, Revelation 9:6, Proverbs 2:4, Proverbs 2:4, Jonah 4:3

22who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

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23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?

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Job 19:8, Job 19:8, Lamentations 3:7, Lamentations 3:7, Isaiah 40:27

24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

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Psalms 102:9, Psalms 102:9, Psalms 80:5, Psalms 42:3, Psalms 42:4

25For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

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Job 1:5, Job 1:5, Job 30:15, Job 30:15, Job 31:23

26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."

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Job 7:14, Job 7:14, Job 27:9, Psalms 143:11, Job 27:9