Job 3:9-11

Revised Standard Version

⁹Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
    let it hope for light, but have none,
    nor see the eyelids of the morning;
¹⁰because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
    nor hide trouble from my eyes.

¹¹“Why did I not die at birth,
come forth from the womb and expire?

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