Job 3
1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
After thus he opened Job mouth his and he cursed day his.
2 And Job answered and said,
And he answered Job and he said.
3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
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 darkness, let not God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon 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 darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify 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 gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice 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 Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;
There! the night that let it be barren may not it come a cry of joy in it.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
Let them curse it cursers of a day the [ones] ready to rouse Leviathan.
9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids 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 shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
For not it shut [the] doors of womb my and it hid trouble from eyes my.
11 Wherefore did I not die from the womb, — come forth from the belly and expire?
Why? not from [the] womb did I die from [the] belly I came forth and I may expire?
12 Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
Why? did they receive me knees and why? breasts that I will suckle.
13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
For now I lay down and I may be at peace I slept then - it is at rest to me.
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,
With kings and counselors of [the] earth the [ones who] rebuilt ruins for themselves.
15 Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
Or with princes [whom] gold [belonged] to them those [who] filled houses their silver.
16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
Or like a miscarriage hidden not was I? like children [who] not they have seen light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
There wicked [people] they cease turmoil and there they rest weary [ones] of strength.
18 The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Together prisoners they are at ease not they hear [the] voice of a taskmaster.
19 The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.
Small and great [is] there he and a slave [is] free from master his.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
Why? does someone give to a sufferer light and life to [people] bitter of soul.
21 Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
Those [who] long for death and there not [is] it and they dug for it more than hidden treasures.
22 Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? —
The joyful [people] to rejoicing they exult if they find [the] grave.
23 To the man whose way is hidden, and whom God hath hedged in?
To a man whom way his it is hidden and he has made inaccessible God behind him.
24 For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
If before food my groaning my it comes and they poured forth like water cries of distress my.
25 For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
For a fear I feared and it came to me and [that] which I dreaded it came to me.
26 I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.
Not I am at ease - and not I am at peace and not I am at rest and it has come turmoil.
