Job 3
1 after so to open Job [obj] lip his and to lighten [obj] day his
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 and to answer Job and to say
And Job spoke, and said:
3 to perish day to beget in/on/with him and [the] night to say to conceive great man
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.'
4 [the] day [the] he/she/it to be darkness not to seek him god from above and not to shine upon him light
Let that day be darkness; let not God inquire after it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 to redeem: redeem him darkness and shadow to dwell upon him cloud to terrify him darkness day
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.
6 [the] night [the] he/she/it to take: take him darkness not to rejoice in/on/with day year in/on/with number month not to come (in): come
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.
7 behold [the] night [the] he/she/it to be solitary not to come (in): come triumphing in/on/with him
Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein.
8 to curse him to curse day [the] ready to rouse Leviathan
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 to darken star twilight his to await to/for light and nothing and not to see: see in/on/with eyelid dawn
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;
10 for not to shut door belly: womb my and to hide trouble from eye my
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
11 to/for what? not from womb to die from belly: womb to come out: produce and to die
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?
12 why? to meet me knee and what? breast for to suckle
Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
13 for now to lie down: lay down and to quiet to sleep then to rest to/for me
For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest —
14 with king and to advise land: country/planet [the] to build desolation to/for them
With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15 or with ruler gold to/for them [the] to fill house: home their silver: money
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16 or like/as miscarriage to hide not to be like/as infant not to see: see light
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.
17 there wicked to cease turmoil and there to rest weary strength
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
18 unitedness prisoner to rest not to hear: hear voice to oppress
There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
19 small and great: large there he/she/it and servant/slave free from lord his
The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master.
20 to/for what? to give: give to/for labour(er) light and life to/for bitter soul
Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul —
21 [the] to wait to/for death and nothing he and to search him from treasure
Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22 [the] glad to(wards) rejoicing to rejoice for to find grave
Who rejoice unto exultation, and are glad, when they can find the grave? —
23 to/for great man which way: journey his to hide and to fence god about/through/for him
To a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24 for to/for face: before food: bread my sighing my to come (in): come and to pour like/as water roaring my
For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.
25 for dread to dread and to come me and which to fear to come (in): come to/for me
For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.
26 not to prosper and not to quiet and not to rest and to come (in): come turmoil
I was not at ease, neither was I quiet, neither had I rest; but trouble came.
