Job 3
1 Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,
After thus he opened Job mouth his and he cursed day his.
2 Job made answer and said,
And he answered Job and he said.
3 Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.
Let it perish [the] day [which] I was born on it and the night [which] it said he has been conceived a man.
4 That day — let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;
The day that let it be darkness may not he care for it God above and may not it shine forth on it daylight.
5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
Let them reclaim it darkness and deep darkness let it settle down over it cloud let them terrify it [the] darkness of day.
6 That night — let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
The night that let it take it darkness may not it rejoice among [the] days of [the] year in [the] number of [the] months may not it come.
7 As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;
There! the night that let it be barren may not it come a cry of joy in it.
8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.
Let them curse it cursers of a day the [ones] ready to rouse Leviathan.
9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.
Let them grow dark [the] stars of twilight its let it wait for light and not and may not it look on [the] eyelids of dawn.
10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.
For not it shut [the] doors of womb my and it hid trouble from eyes my.
11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
Why? not from [the] womb did I die from [the] belly I came forth and I may expire?
12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
Why? did they receive me knees and why? breasts that I will suckle.
13 For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
For now I lay down and I may be at peace I slept then - it is at rest to me.
14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;
With kings and counselors of [the] earth the [ones who] rebuilt ruins for themselves.
15 Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;
Or with princes [whom] gold [belonged] to them those [who] filled houses their silver.
16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
Or like a miscarriage hidden not was I? like children [who] not they have seen light.
17 There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
There wicked [people] they cease turmoil and there they rest weary [ones] of strength.
18 There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.
Together prisoners they are at ease not they hear [the] voice of a taskmaster.
19 The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
Small and great [is] there he and a slave [is] free from master his.
20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
Why? does someone give to a sufferer light and life to [people] bitter of soul.
21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;
Those [who] long for death and there not [is] it and they dug for it more than hidden treasures.
22 Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;
The joyful [people] to rejoicing they exult if they find [the] grave.
23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?
To a man whom way his it is hidden and he has made inaccessible God behind him.
24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
If before food my groaning my it comes and they poured forth like water cries of distress my.
25 For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.
For a fear I feared and it came to me and [that] which I dreaded it came to me.
26 I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.
Not I am at ease - and not I am at peace and not I am at rest and it has come turmoil.
