Job

Job 3 ©

1 Job curseth the day of his birth, 11 and wisheth he had never been roused out of the quiet sleep of the grave: 20 he complaineth of life because of his anguish.

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AFTER this aopened Job his mouth, and bcursed his day.

a ch. 1.22; 2.10.
b Je. 20.14. Ps. 106.33.
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And Job 1spake, and said,

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cLet the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

c ch. 10.18,19. Je. 20.14-18; 15.10.
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Let that day be ddarkness; let not eGod regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

d Ex. 10.22,23. Am. 5.8. Ac. 27.20.
e De. 11.12. Ps. 74.16.
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Let darkness and the fshadow of death 2stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; 3let the blackness of the day terrify it.

f ch. 10.21,22; 24.17; 38.17. Ps. 23.4; 44.19; 107.10,14. Je. 13.16. Am. 5.8. Is. 9.2.
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As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; 4let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

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Lo, let that night be gsolitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

g Is. 13.21; 24.8. Re. 18.22,23. Je. 7.34.
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Let them curse it hthat curse the day, who are ready to raise up 5their mourning.

h 2Ch. 35.25. Je. 9.17-20. Am. 5.16.
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Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it ilook for light, but have none; neither let it see 6the dawning of the day:

i ch. 30.26. Je. 8.15; 13.16. Mi. 1.12.
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Because it jshut not up the doors of my mother 's womb, nor hid ksorrow from mine eyes.

j Ge. 20.17,18; 29.31,32; 30.22.
k v.24. ch. 6.2,3; 10.1; 23.2.
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Why ldied I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

l ch. 10.8,18,19. Je. 15.10; 20.17,18. Ec. 6.3-5.
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Why mdid the knees *prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

m Ge. 30.3; 50.23. Eze. 16.5. Is. 66.12.
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For now should nI have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

n Is. 57.2. 1Ki. 2.10.
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oWith kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

o Ps. 49.6-10,14; 89.48. ch. 30.23.
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Or with princes that had gold, who pfilled their houses with silver:

p ch. 22.25; 27.16. Nu. 22.18. Pr. 8.21; 10.22.
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Or qas an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

q Ps. 58.8. Re. 6.13. Ec. 6.3-5.
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There the rwicked cease from troubling; and there the 7weary be at rest.

r Is. 57.20. Pr. 4.16.
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There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the soppressor.

s Ex. 5.6. Ju. 4.3. Es. 7.6.
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The tsmall and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

t Je. 5.4,5. Ps. 49.2,10; 89.48. ch. 30.23.
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Wherefore is ulight given to him that is in misery, and life unto the vbitter in soul;

u Ps. 56.13. ch. 7.15,16; 14.13; 6.9.
v 1Sa. 1.10. Pr. 31.6.
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wWhich 8long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

w Re. 9.6. ch. 6.8,9; 7.15,16. Nu. 11.15. 1Ki. 19.4. Jonah 4.3,8.
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Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

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Why is light given to a man xwhose way is hid, and ywhom God hath zhedged in?

x Is. 40.27.
y Ps. 88.8.
z ch. 19.8; 12.14. La. 3.7,9. Ho. 2.6.
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For amy sighing cometh 9before I eat, and bmy roarings are poured out like the waters.

a ch. 7.19. Ps. 102.9.
b Ps. 22.1,2,14; 119.136. He. 5.7.
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For 10the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

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cI was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

c Ge. 3.19. ch. 14.1. Ac. 14.22. He. 12.6-11. Re. 3.19. 2Ti. 3.12.