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The Book of Job, Chapter 3, Verse 7

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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.
King James Version
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
American Standard Version
Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
New English Translation
Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!
World English Bible
Behold, let that night be barren. 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;
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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.