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let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1"><i>As for</i> that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">That night—let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but <i>have</i> none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Because it shut not up the doors of my <i>mother's</i> womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Why died I not from the womb? <i>why</i> did I <i>not</i> give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants <i>which</i> never saw light.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">There the wicked cease <i>from</i> troubling; and there the weary be at rest.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1"><i>There</i> the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The small and great are there; and the servant <i>is</i> free from his master.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter <i>in</i> soul;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Which long for death, but it <i>cometh</i> not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Which rejoice exceedingly, <i>and</i> are glad, when they can find the grave?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1"><i>Why is light given</i> to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">King James Bible, text courtesy of <a href="http://bibleprotector.com/">BibleProtector.com</a>.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. 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