Job extends the curse to the night of conception, calling for darkness and shadow to reclaim it, suggesting a reversal of the creative word by which God separated light from darkness in Genesis. His demand that God not look upon it and that no light shine upon it represents a wish for cosmic un-creation, as if that moment could be removed from the record of being. The rhetorical intensity of the curse reveals the depth of existential despair that suffering has provoked.

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