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Job 3:1-13 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

1. Finally Job broke the silence and cursed the day on which he had been born.

2-3. O God, put a curse on the day I was born;put a curse on the night when I was conceived!

4. Turn that day into darkness, God.Never again remember that day;never again let light shine on it.

5. Make it a day of gloom and thick darkness;cover it with clouds, and blot out the sun.

6. Blot that night out of the year,and never let it be counted again;

7. make it a barren, joyless night.

8. Tell the sorcerers to curse that day,those who know how to control Leviathan.

9. Keep the morning star from shining;give that night no hope of dawn.

10. Curse that night for letting me be born,for exposing me to trouble and grief.

11. I wish I had died in my mother's wombor died the moment I was born.

12. Why did my mother hold me on her knees?Why did she feed me at her breast?

13. If I had died then, I would be at rest now,

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