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Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Let 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>As 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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