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