Job 3
1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
After thus he opened Job mouth his and he cursed day his.
2 And Job spoke, and said:
And he answered Job and he said.
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.'
Let it perish [the] day [which] I was born on it and the night [which] it said he has been conceived a man.
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God inquire after it from above, neither let the 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 for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black 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 As for that night, let thick darkness 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 Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice 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 up leviathan.
Let them curse it cursers of a day the [ones] ready to rouse Leviathan.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning;
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 my mother's womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
For not it shut [the] doors of womb my and it hid trouble from eyes my.
11 Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?
Why? not from [the] womb did I die from [the] belly I came forth and I may expire?
12 Why did the knees receive 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 still 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 built up waste places for themselves;
With kings and counselors of [the] earth the [ones who] rebuilt ruins for themselves.
15 Or with princes that 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 never saw 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 weary are at rest.
There wicked [people] they cease turmoil and there they rest weary [ones] of strength.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together; 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 alike; and the servant is free from his master.
Small and great [is] there he and a slave [is] free from master his.
20 Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul —
Why? does someone give to a sufferer light and life to [people] bitter of soul.
21 Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Those [who] long for death and there not [is] it and they dug for it more than hidden treasures.
22 Who rejoice unto exultation, and are glad, when they can find the grave? —
The joyful [people] to rejoicing they exult if they find [the] grave.
23 To a man whose way is hid, 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 instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.
If before food my groaning my it comes and they poured forth like water cries of distress my.
25 For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.
For a fear I feared and it came to me and [that] which I dreaded it came to me.
26 I was not at ease, neither was I quiet, neither had I rest; but trouble came.
Not I am at ease - and not I am at peace and not I am at rest and it has come turmoil.
