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So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
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“May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said, ‘A male child is conceived.’
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As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year, May it not come into the number of the months.
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Oh, may that night be barren! May no joyful shout come into it!
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In disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,
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They meet with darkness in the daytime, And grope at noontime as in the night.
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So I have been allotted months of futility, And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.
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When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise, And the night be ended?’ For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn.
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They change the night into day; ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.
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He will fly away like a dream, and not be found; Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
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They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
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The murderer rises with the light; He kills the poor and needy; And in the night he is like a thief.
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Terrors overtake him like a flood; A tempest steals him away in the night.
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My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lies all night on my branch.
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My bones are pierced in me at night, And my gnawing pains take no rest.
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In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds,
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In a moment they die, in the middle of the night; The people are shaken and pass away; The mighty are taken away without a hand.
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Therefore He knows their works; He overthrows them in the night, And they are crushed.
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But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,
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Do not desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.
