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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Debate</span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Job's Outburst</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And Job spake, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let the day perish wherein I was born,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">And the night </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in which</span></span><span class="content"> it was said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">There is a man child conceived.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let that day be darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">Let not God regard it from above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">Neither let the light shine upon it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">Let a cloud dwell upon it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">Let the blackness of the day terrify it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">As for</span></span><span class="content"> that night, let darkness seize upon it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">Let it not be joined unto the days of the year,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">Let it not come into the number of the months.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Lo, let that night be solitary,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">Let no joyful voice come therein.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let them curse it that curse the day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">Who are ready to raise up their mourning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">Let it look for light, but </span><span class="add"><span class="content">have</span></span><span class="content"> none;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">Neither let it see the dawning of the day:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Because it shut not up the doors of my </span><span class="add"><span class="content">mother's</span></span><span class="content"> womb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">Nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why died I not from the womb?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Why</span></span><span class="content"> did I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">not</span></span><span class="content"> give up the ghost</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">When I came out of the belly?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why did the knees prevent me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">Or why the breasts that I should suck?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For now should I have lain still and been quiet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">I should have slept: then had I been at rest,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">With kings and counsellors of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">Which built desolate places for themselves;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Or with princes that had gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">Who filled their houses with silver:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">As infants </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> never saw light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">There the wicked cease </span><span class="add"><span class="content">from</span></span><span class="content"> troubling;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">And there the weary be at rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">There</span></span><span class="content"> the prisoners rest together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">They hear not the voice of the oppressor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The small and great are there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">And the servant </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> free from his master.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">And life unto the bitter </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> soul;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Which long for death, but it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">cometh</span></span><span class="content"> not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">And dig for it more than for hid treasures;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Which rejoice exceedingly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> are glad, when they can find the grave?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Why is light given</span></span><span class="content"> to a man whose way is hid,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">And whom God hath hedged in?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For my sighing cometh before I eat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">And my roarings are poured out like the waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">And that which I was afraid of is come unto me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="content">Yet trouble came.</span></span></div>
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