Tuesday, October 1 : Book of Job 3,1-3.11-17.20-23.

Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
Job spoke out and said:
Perish the day on which I was born, the night when they said, “The child is a boy!”
Why did I not perish at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?
Wherefore did the knees receive me? or why did I suck at the breasts?
For then I should have lain down and been tranquil; had I slept, I should then have been at rest
With kings and counselors of the earth who built where now there are ruins
Or with princes who had gold and filled their houses with silver.
Or why was I not buried away like an untimely birth, like babes that have never seen the light?
There the wicked cease from troubling, there the weary are at rest.
Why is light given to the toilers, and life to the bitter in spirit?
They wait for death and it comes not; they search for it rather than for hidden treasures,
Rejoice in it exultingly, and are glad when they reach the grave:
Men whose path is hidden from them, and whom God has hemmed in!

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