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I wish that night had produced nothing
    and no happy shouts had been heard.
Some magicians think they can wake Leviathan.[a]
    So let them say their curses and curse the day I was born.
Let that day’s morning star be dark.
    Let that night wait for a morning that never comes.
    I wish it had never seen the first rays of sunlight.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:8 Leviathan Here, this is probably a giant sea monster. Some people thought magicians were able to make it “swallow the sun,” that is, cause an eclipse.

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