Job 3
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Job 3:11-22

11“Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not perish when I came from the womb?

12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

13For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest

14With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built ruins for themselves,

15Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver;

16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like infants who never saw light?

17There the wicked cease from troubling, And there the weary are at rest.

18There the prisoners rest together; They do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

19The small and great are there, And the servant is free from his master.

20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, And life to the bitter of soul,

21Who long for death, but it does not come, And search for it more than hidden treasures;

22Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad when they can find the grave?

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