Job
Chapter 3

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After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

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Job spoke out and said:

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Perish the day on which I was born, the night when they said, "The child is a boy!"

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Why did I not perish at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?

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¹ Or why was I not buried away like an untimely birth, like babes that have never seen the light?

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Wherefore did the knees receive me? or why did I suck at the breasts?

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For then I should have lain down and been tranquil; had I slept, I should then have been at rest

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With kings and counselors of the earth who built where now there are ruins

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Or with princes who had gold and filled their houses with silver.

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² There the wicked cease from troubling, there the weary are at rest.

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Why is light given to the toilers, and life to the bitter in spirit?

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They wait for death and it comes not; they search for it rather than for hidden treasures,

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Rejoice in it exultingly, and are glad when they reach the grave:

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Men whose path is hidden from them, and whom God has hemmed in!

Psalms
Chapter 88

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¹ A song; a psalm of the Korahites. For the leader; according to Mahalath. For singing; a maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.

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LORD, my God, I call out by day; at night I cry aloud in your presence.

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Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry.

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² For my soul is filled with troubles; my life draws near to Sheol.

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I am reckoned with those who go down to the pit; I am weak, without strength.

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My couch is among the dead, with the slain who lie in the grave. You remember them no more; they are cut off from your care.

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You plunged me into the bottom of the pit, into the darkness of the abyss.

Luke
Chapter 9

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^{1 2 3} When the days for his being taken up were fulfilled, he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem,

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⁴ and he sent messengers ahead of him. On the way they entered a Samaritan village to prepare for his reception there,

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but they would not welcome him because the destination of his journey was Jerusalem.

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When the disciples James and John saw this they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?"

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Jesus turned and rebuked them,

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and they journeyed to another village.