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May it be blotted off the calendar, never again to be counted among the days of the month of that year. Let that night be bleak and joyless. Let those who are experts at cursing curse it.[a]

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  1. Job 3:8 Let those who are experts at cursing curse it, literally, “Let them who can curse the sea, who know how to rouse the sea monster, curse it.”

That night—may thick darkness(A) seize it;
    may it not be included among the days of the year
    nor be entered in any of the months.
May that night be barren;
    may no shout of joy(B) be heard in it.
May those who curse days[a] curse that day,(C)
    those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.(D)

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  1. Job 3:8 Or curse the sea