1At length 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

2And Job spake and said:

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Judges 18:14, Judges 18:14

3Perish the day in which I was born, and the night which said, "A man-child is 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; Let not God seek it from above; Yea, let not the light shine upon 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 redeem it; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let whatever darkeneth 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 darkness seize upon 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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7O let that night be unfruitful! Let there be in it no voice of joy;

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

8Let them that curse the day curse it, Who are skilful to stir up the 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 darkened; Let it long for light, and have none; Neither let it see the eyelashes of the morning!

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

10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, And hid not trouble from mine eyes.

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

11Why died I not at my birth? Why did I not expire when I came forth from the womb?

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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, And why the breasts, that I might suck?

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

13For now should I lie down and be quiet; I should sleep; then should I be at rest,

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

14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up for themselves—ruins!

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

15Or with princes that had gold, And 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 perished; As infants which never saw the 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 rest together; They hear not the voice of the oppressor.

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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, And 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

20Why giveth He light to him that is in misery, And 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, and it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

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

22Who rejoice exceedingly, Yea, exult, when they can find a grave?

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23Why is light given to a man from whom the way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

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

24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groans 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 that which I dread overtaketh me; That at which I shudder cometh upon me.

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

26I have no peace, nor quiet, nor respite: Misery cometh upon me continually.

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