Job 3
1 After this time Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
After thus he opened Job mouth his and he cursed day his.
2 And Job commenced, and said,
And he answered Job and he said.
3 Oh that the day whereon I was born might perish, and the night when it was said, There hath been a male 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 May that day be [covered with] darkness; may not God from above inquire for it, and may no light beam 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 Oh that darkness and the shadow of death might defile it; may a cloud rest upon it; may the blackness 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 Yon night — let darkness seize upon it; let it not be united to the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the [periods lighted by the] moon.
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, may that night be solitary, let no song of joy occur thereon.
There! the night that let it be barren may not it come a cry of joy in it.
8 Let those denounce it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning cry.
Let them curse it cursers of a day the [ones] ready to rouse Leviathan.
9 Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; let it hope for light, and there be none; and let it not behold the eyelids of the morning-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 God closed not against me the doors of the womb, and thus concealed trouble from my eyes.
For not it shut [the] doors of womb my and it hid trouble from eyes my.
11 Why did I not die [the moment I issued] from the womb, and [why] was I not born merely to perish at once?
Why? not from [the] womb did I die from [the] belly I came forth and I may expire?
12 Wherefore were knees ready to receive me? and for what purpose were breasts there that I might suck?
Why? did they receive me knees and why? breasts that I will suckle.
13 For now should I be lying still and be quiet; I should sleep: then would I be 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 up ruined places for themselves;
With kings and counselors of [the] earth the [ones who] rebuilt ruins for themselves.
15 Or with princes possessing gold, who fill their houses with silver;
Or with princes [whom] gold [belonged] to them those [who] filled houses their silver.
16 Or as an untimely birth, hidden [from view] I should not exist; as infants that never have seen the light;
Or like a miscarriage hidden not was I? like children [who] not they have seen light.
17 There [where] the wicked cease from troubling; and where the exhausted weary are at rest;
There wicked [people] they cease turmoil and there they rest weary [ones] of strength.
18 [Where] the prisoners repose together, [and] they hear no more the taskmaster's voice.
Together prisoners they are at ease not they hear [the] voice of a taskmaster.
19 The small with the great is there, and the servant free from his master.
Small and great [is] there he and a slave [is] free from master his.
20 Wherefore giveth He now light to the labor-laden, and life unto the bitter in soul?
Why? does someone give to a sufferer light and life to [people] bitter of soul.
21 Who wait for death, which [cometh] not; and who dig for it sooner 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 would rejoice even to exulting, who would be glad could they but find a grave?
The joyful [people] to rejoicing they exult if they find [the] grave.
23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hidden, and around whom God hath placed a fence?
To a man whom way his it is hidden and he has made inaccessible God behind him.
24 For before my food cometh my groaning, and like the water are poured forth my loud complaints.
If before food my groaning my it comes and they poured forth like water cries of distress my.
25 Because what I greatly dreaded is come upon me, and what I apprehended is come unto me.
For a fear I feared and it came to me and [that] which I dreaded it came to me.
26 I have had no safety, and no quiet, and no rest; and [now] harrowing trouble is come.
Not I am at ease - and not I am at peace and not I am at rest and it has come turmoil.
