Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes

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    Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
    —Bible: Hebrew Job, 3:3.

    A similar imprecation is found in Jeremiah 20:14-15.

    Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or
    the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the
    cistern.
    Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit
    shall return unto God who gave it.
    Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. XII, 6–7)