< Job 3 >
1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
after so to open Job [obj] lip his and to lighten [obj] day his
2 And Job answered and said,
and to answer Job and to say
3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
to perish day to beget in/on/with him and [the] night to say to conceive great man
4 That day — let it be darkness, let not God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:
[the] day [the] he/she/it to be darkness not to seek him god from above and not to shine upon him light
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
to redeem: redeem him darkness and shadow to dwell upon him cloud to terrify him darkness 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 [the] he/she/it to take: take him darkness not to rejoice in/on/with day year in/on/with number month not to come (in): come
7 Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;
behold [the] night [the] he/she/it to be solitary not to come (in): come triumphing in/on/with him
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
to curse him to curse day [the] 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:
to darken star twilight his to await to/for light and nothing and not to see: see in/on/with eyelid dawn
10 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
for not to shut door belly: womb my and to hide trouble from eye my
11 Wherefore did I not die from the womb, — come forth from the belly and expire?
to/for what? not from womb to die from belly: womb to come out: produce and to die
12 Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
why? to meet me knee and what? breast for to suckle
13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
for now to lie down: lay down and to quiet to sleep then to rest to/for me
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,
with king and to advise land: country/planet [the] to build desolation to/for them
15 Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
or with ruler gold to/for them [the] to fill house: home their silver: money
16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
or like/as miscarriage to hide not to be like/as infant not to see: see light
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
there wicked to cease turmoil and there to rest weary strength
18 The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
unitedness prisoner to rest not to hear: hear voice to oppress
19 The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.
small and great: large there he/she/it and servant/slave free from lord his
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
to/for what? to give: give to/for labour(er) light and life to/for bitter soul
21 Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
[the] to wait to/for death and nothing he and to search him from treasure
22 Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? —
[the] glad to(wards) rejoicing to rejoice for to find grave
23 To the man whose way is hidden, and whom God hath hedged in?
to/for great man which way: journey his to hide and to fence god about/through/for him
24 For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
for to/for face: before food: bread my sighing my to come (in): come and to pour like/as water roaring my
25 For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
for dread to dread and to come me and which to fear to come (in): come to/for me
26 I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.
not to prosper and not to quiet and not to rest and to come (in): come turmoil