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Job Cries Out on the Ash Heap
by emmanuel_higgins
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Job 3:2
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After this opened
Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
And Job spake, and said,
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Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night
in which
it was said, There is a man child conceived.
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Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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As
for
that night, let darkness seize upon it; let 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 solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
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Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but
have
none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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Because it shut not up the doors of my
mother’s
womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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Why died I not from the womb?
why
did I
not
give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants
which
never saw light.
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There the wicked cease
from
troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18
There
the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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The small and great are there; and the servant
is
free from his master.
20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter
in
soul;
21
Which long for death, but it
cometh
not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22
Which rejoice exceedingly,
and
are glad, when they can find the grave?
23
Why is light given
to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
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I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
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