Book of Job, Chapter 3
Chapter 3 of Job
and the night which said,
‘A man-child is conceived.’
May God above not seek it,
nor light shine upon it.
Let clouds dwell upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.
let it not rejoice among the days of the year,
let it not come into the number of the months.
let no joyful cry be heard[a] in it.
who are skilled to rouse up Levi′athan.
let it hope for light, but have none,
nor see the eyelids of the morning;
nor hide trouble from my eyes.
come forth from the womb and expire?
Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,
who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
who filled their houses with silver.
as infants that never see the light?
and there the weary are at rest.
they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
and the slave is free from his master.
and life to the bitter in soul,
and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
and are glad, when they find the grave?
whom God has hedged in?
and my groanings are poured out like water.
and what I dread befalls me.
I have no rest; but trouble comes.”FOOTNOTES
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