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“Let the day perish on which I was born,
and the night that said, ‘A man-child is conceived.’
Let that day become[a] darkness;
may God not seek it from above,
nor may daylight shine on it.
Let darkness and deep shadow claim it;
let clouds[b] settle on it;
let them[c] terrify it with the blackness[d] of day.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:4 Or “be”
  2. Job 3:5 Literally “cloud”
  3. Job 3:5 Masculine plural referring to all three entities mentioned in this verse
  4. Job 3:5 Literally “blacknesses”