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May that day be darkness:
    may God[a] above not care for it,
    may light not shine upon it!
May darkness and gloom claim it,
    clouds settle upon it,
    blackness of day[b] affright it!
May obscurity seize that night;
    may it not be counted among the days of the year,
    nor enter into the number of the months!

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Footnotes

  1. 3:4 God: in Heb. ’Eloah, another name for the divinity, used frequently in Job.
  2. 3:5 Blackness of day: that is, an eclipse.