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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 3
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 3,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-3:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.1",
        "text": "After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-3:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.2",
        "text": "And Job answered and said:"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-3:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.3",
        "text": "Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-3:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.4",
        "text": "Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-3:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.5",
        "text": "Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their       own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-3:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.6",
        "text": "As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-3:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.7",
        "text": "Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-3:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.8",
        "text": "Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-3:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.9",
        "text": "Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-3:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.10",
        "text": "Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother`s] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-3:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.11",
        "text": "Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-3:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.12",
        "text": "Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-3:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.13",
        "text": "For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-3:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.14",
        "text": "With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-3:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.15",
        "text": "Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-3:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.16",
        "text": "Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-3:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.17",
        "text": "There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-3:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.18",
        "text": "There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-3:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.19",
        "text": "The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-3:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.20",
        "text": "Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-3:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.21",
        "text": "Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-3:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.22",
        "text": "Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-3:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.23",
        "text": "[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-3:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.24",
        "text": "For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-3:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.25",
        "text": "For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JOB-3:26",
        "verseRef": "Job.3.26",
        "text": "I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh."
      }
    ]
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