### Douay Rheims Bible

Job 2

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 3
#### 1 | After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,
#### 2 | and he said:
#### 3 | Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.
#### 4 | Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.
#### 5 | Let darkness, and the shadow of death cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.
#### 6 | Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.
#### 7 | Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.
#### 8 | Let them curse it who curse the day. who are ready to raise up a leviathan:
#### 9 | Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:
#### 10 | Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.
#### 11 | Why did I not die in the womb, why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?
#### 12 | Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts ?
#### 13 | For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep.
#### 14 | With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:
#### 15 | Or with princes, that possess gold, and All their houses with silver:
#### 16 | Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.
#### 17 | There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.
#### 18 | And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.
#### 19 | The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
#### 20 | Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?
#### 21 | That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:
#### 22 | And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave.
#### 23 | To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?
#### 24 | Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:
#### 25 | For the fear which I feared hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.
#### 26 | Have I not dissembled ? have I not kept silence ? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.

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