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Job 3:3

Verse 3 of 26. The 3rd of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

2Job answered:

3“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

4Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.

6As 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.

7Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.