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Job spoke out and said:

Perish the day on which I was born,(A)
    the night when they said, “The child is a boy!”
May that day be darkness:
    may God[a] above not care for it,
    may light not shine upon it!

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Footnotes

  1. 3:4 God: in Heb. ’Eloah, another name for the divinity, used frequently in Job.

He said:

“May the day of my birth perish,
    and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’(A)
That day—may it turn to darkness;
    may God above not care about it;
    may no light shine on it.

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