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class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the night that said,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">‘A man-child is conceived.’</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Let that day be darkness!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">May God above not seek it,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or light shine on it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Let clouds settle upon it;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let the blackness of the day terrify it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>That night—let thick darkness seize it!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let it not rejoice among the days of the year;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let it not come into the number of the months.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Yes, let that night be barren;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let no joyful cry be heard<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-14982a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> in it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Let those curse it who curse the Sea,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-14983b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">those who are skilled to rouse up Leviathan.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Let the stars of its dawn be dark;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let it hope for light, but have none;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">may it not see the eyelids of the morning—</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and hide trouble from my eyes.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>“Why did I not die at birth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">come forth from the womb and expire?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Why were there knees to receive me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or breasts for me to suck?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Now I would be lying down and quiet;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I would be asleep; then I would be at rest</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>with kings and counselors of the earth</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who rebuild ruins for themselves,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>or with princes who have gold,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who fill their houses with silver.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">like an infant that never sees the light?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>There the wicked cease from troubling,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and there the weary are at rest.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>There the prisoners are at ease together;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>The small and the great are there,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the slaves are free from their masters.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>“Why is light given to one in misery,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and life to the bitter in soul,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>who long for death, but it does not come,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>who rejoice exceedingly,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and are glad when they find the grave?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Why is light given to one who cannot see the way,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">whom God has fenced in?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>For my sighing comes like<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-14999c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> my bread,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my groanings are poured out like water.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>Truly the thing that I fear comes upon me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and what I dread befalls me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I have no rest; but trouble comes.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 3:7">Job 3:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>come</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 3:8">Job 3:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>day</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 3:24">Job 3:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>before</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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