Job 3
1 after so to open Job [obj] lip his and to lighten [obj] day his
After this Job has opened his mouth, and reviles his day.
2 and to answer Job and to say
And Job answers and says:
3 to perish day to beget in/on/with him and [the] night to say to conceive great man
“Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that has said: A man-child has been conceived.
4 [the] day [the] he/she/it to be darkness not to seek him god from above and not to shine upon him light
That day—let it be darkness, Do not let God require it from above, Nor let light shine on it.
5 to redeem: redeem him darkness and shadow to dwell upon him cloud to terrify him darkness day
Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud dwell on it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.
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
That night—let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Let it not come into the number of months.
7 behold [the] night [the] he/she/it to be solitary not to come (in): come triumphing in/on/with him
Behold! That night—let it be barren, Let no singing come into it.
8 to curse him to curse day [the] ready to rouse Leviathan
Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake 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 its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.
10 for not to shut door belly: womb my and to hide trouble from eye my
Because it has not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from my eyes.
11 to/for what? not from womb to die from belly: womb to come out: produce and to die
Why do I not die from the womb? I have come forth from the belly and gasp!
12 why? to meet me knee and what? breast for to suckle
Why have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?
13 for now to lie down: lay down and to quiet to sleep then to rest to/for me
For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept—then there is rest to me,
14 with king and to advise land: country/planet [the] to build desolation to/for them
With kings and counselors of earth, These building ruins for themselves.
15 or with ruler gold to/for them [the] to fill house: home their silver: money
Or with princes—they have gold, They are filling their houses [with] silver.
16 or like/as miscarriage to hide not to be like/as infant not to see: see light
(Or I am not as a hidden abortion, As infants—they have not seen light.)
17 there wicked to cease turmoil and there to rest weary strength
There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there the wearied rest in power.
18 unitedness prisoner to rest not to hear: hear voice to oppress
Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
19 small and great: large there he/she/it and servant/slave free from lord his
Small and great [are] the same there. And a servant [is] free from his lord.
20 to/for what? to give: give to/for labour(er) light and life to/for bitter soul
Why does He give light to the miserable, and life to the bitter soul?
21 [the] to wait to/for death and nothing he and to search him from treasure
Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.
22 [the] glad to(wards) rejoicing to rejoice for to find grave
Who are glad—to joy, They rejoice when they find a 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 has been hidden, And whom God shuts up?
24 for to/for face: before food: bread my sighing my to come (in): come and to pour like/as water roaring my
For before my food, my sighing comes, And my roarings [are] poured out as waters.
25 for dread to dread and to come me and which to fear to come (in): come to/for me
For I feared a fear and it meets me, And what I was afraid of comes to me.
26 not to prosper and not to quiet and not to rest and to come (in): come turmoil
I was not safe—nor was I quiet—Nor was I at rest—and trouble comes!”
