### Noah Webster Bible

Job 2

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 3
| After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
| And Job spoke, and said,
| Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a mail child conceived.
| Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
| Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
| As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
| Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
| Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
| Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
| Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
| Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?
| Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
| For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
| With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;
| Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
| Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
| There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
| There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
| The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
| Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;
| Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
| Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
| Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
| For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
| For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
| I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

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