Job 3
1 After thus he opened Job mouth his and he cursed day his.
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
2 And he answered Job and he said.
And Job answered and said,
3 Let it perish [the] day [which] I was born on it and the night [which] it said he has been conceived a man.
Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
4 The day that let it be darkness may not he care for it God above and may not it shine forth on it daylight.
That day — let it be darkness, let not God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:
5 Let them reclaim it darkness and deep darkness let it settle down over it cloud let them terrify it [the] darkness of day.
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
6 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.
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.
7 There! the night that let it be barren may not it come a cry of joy in it.
Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;
8 Let them curse it cursers of a day the [ones] ready to rouse Leviathan.
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
9 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.
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:
10 For not it shut [the] doors of womb my and it hid trouble from eyes my.
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
11 Why? not from [the] womb did I die from [the] belly I came forth and I may expire?
Wherefore did I not die from the womb, — come forth from the belly and expire?
12 Why? did they receive me knees and why? breasts that I will suckle.
Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
13 For now I lay down and I may be at peace I slept then - it is at rest to me.
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14 With kings and counselors of [the] earth the [ones who] rebuilt ruins for themselves.
With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,
15 Or with princes [whom] gold [belonged] to them those [who] filled houses their silver.
Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16 Or like a miscarriage hidden not was I? like children [who] not they have seen light.
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
17 There wicked [people] they cease turmoil and there they rest weary [ones] of strength.
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
18 Together prisoners they are at ease not they hear [the] voice of a taskmaster.
The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
19 Small and great [is] there he and a slave [is] free from master his.
The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.
20 Why? does someone give to a sufferer light and life to [people] bitter of soul.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
21 Those [who] long for death and there not [is] it and they dug for it more than hidden treasures.
Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
22 The joyful [people] to rejoicing they exult if they find [the] grave.
Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? —
23 To a man whom way his it is hidden and he has made inaccessible God behind him.
To the man whose way is hidden, and whom God hath hedged in?
24 If before food my groaning my it comes and they poured forth like water cries of distress my.
For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
25 For a fear I feared and it came to me and [that] which I dreaded it came to me.
For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
26 Not I am at ease - and not I am at peace and not I am at rest and it has come turmoil.
I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.
