Job 3

1 After thus he opened Job mouth his and he cursed day his.

After this, opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

2 And he answered Job and he said.

So then Job began, 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.

Perish, the day wherein I was born, and the night it was said, Lo! a manchild!

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, be it darkness, —Let not God enquire after it from above, May there shine upon it no clear beam:

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 death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day’s dark eclipse cause it terror:

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, darkness take it, —May it not rejoice among the days of the year, Into the number of months, let it not enter.

7 There! the night that let it be barren may not it come a cry of joy in it.

Lo! that night, be it barren, Let no joyous shouting enter therein:

8 Let them curse it cursers of a day the [ones] ready to rouse Leviathan.

Let day-cursers denounce it, Those skilled in rousing the dragon of the sky:

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.

Darkened be the stars of its twilight, —Let it wait for light, and there be none, neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn:

10 For not it shut [the] doors of womb my and it hid trouble from eyes my.

Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.

11 Why? not from [the] womb did I die from [the] belly I came forth and I may expire?

Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?

12 Why? did they receive me knees and why? breasts that I will suckle.

For what reason, were there prepared for me—knees? and why—breasts, 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.

Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest:

14 With kings and counselors of [the] earth the [ones who] rebuilt ruins for themselves.

With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids:

15 Or with princes [whom] gold [belonged] to them those [who] filled houses their silver.

Or with rulers possessing, gold, —Who had filled their houses with silver:

16 Or like a miscarriage hidden not was I? like children [who] not they have seen light.

Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:

17 There wicked [people] they cease turmoil and there they rest weary [ones] of strength.

There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn are at rest:

18 Together prisoners they are at ease not they hear [the] voice of a taskmaster.

At once are prisoners at peace, they hear not the voice of a driver:

19 Small and great [is] there he and a slave [is] free from master his.

Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.

20 Why? does someone give to a sufferer light and life to [people] bitter of soul.

Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in 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 is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:

22 The joyful [people] to rejoicing they exult if they find [the] grave.

Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave:

23 To a man whom way his it is hidden and he has made inaccessible God behind him.

To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him?

24 If before food my groaning my it comes and they poured forth like water cries of distress my.

For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:

25 For a fear I feared and it came to me and [that] which I dreaded it came to me.

For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken 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 careless, nor was I secure, nor had I settled down, —when there came—consternation!