Bible: Hebrew Job 12:12.

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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.

    We have not the motive to prepare ourselves for a “life-work” of teaching, of social work—we know that we would lay it down with hallelujah in the height of our success, to make a home for the right man. And all the time in the background of our consciousness rings the warning that perhaps the right man will never come. A great love is given to very few. Perhaps this make-shift time filler of a job is our life work after all.
    Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)