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The Book of Job, Chapter 3, Verse 4

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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.
King James Version
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
American Standard Version
Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.
New English Translation
That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!
World English Bible
Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
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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?
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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;