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Job 3 Verses
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Then Job broke the silence. He spoke up and cursed his fate: |
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"Obliterate the day I was born. Blank out the night I was conceived! |
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Let it be a black hole in space. May God above forget it ever happened. Erase it from the books! |
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May the day of my birth be buried in deep darkness, shrouded by the fog, swallowed by the night. |
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And the night of my conception--the devil take it! Rip the date off the calendar, delete it from the almanac. |
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Oh, turn that night into pure nothingness-- no sounds of pleasure from that night, ever! |
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May those who are good at cursing curse that day. Unleash the sea beast, Leviathan, on it. |
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May its morning stars turn to black cinders, waiting for a daylight that never comes, never once seeing the first light of dawn. |
10
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And why? Because it released me from my mother's womb into a life with so much trouble. |
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"Why didn't I die at birth, my first breath out of the womb my last? |
12
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Why were there arms to rock me, and breasts for me to drink from? |
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I could be resting in peace right now, asleep forever, feeling no pain, |
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In the company of kings and statesmen in their royal ruins, |
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Or with princes resplendent in their gold and silver tombs. |
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Why wasn't I stillborn and buried with all the babies who never saw light, |
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Where the wicked no longer trouble anyone and bone-weary people get a long-deserved rest? |
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Prisoners sleep undisturbed, never again to wake up to the bark of the guards. |
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The small and the great are equals in that place, and slaves are free from their masters. |
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"Why does God bother giving light to the miserable, why bother keeping bitter people alive, |
21
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Those who want in the worst way to die, and can't, who can't imagine anything better than death, |
22
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Who count the day of their death and burial the happiest day of their life? |
23
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What's the point of life when it doesn't make sense, when God blocks all the roads to meaning? |
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"Instead of bread I get groans for my supper, then leave the table and vomit my anguish. |
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The worst of my fears has come true, what I've dreaded most has happened. |
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My repose is shattered, my peace destroyed. No rest for me, ever--death has invaded life." |