Job 3
1 after so to open Job [obj] lip his and to lighten [obj] day his
At length Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
2 and to answer Job and to say
And Job spake and said:
3 to perish day to beget in/on/with him and [the] night to say to conceive great man
Perish the day in which I was born, and the night which said, “A man-child is 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
Let that day be darkness; Let not God seek it from above; Yea, let not 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 redeem it; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let whatever darkeneth 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 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
O let that night be unfruitful! Let there be in it no voice of joy;
8 to curse him to curse day [the] ready to rouse Leviathan
Let them that curse the day curse it, Who are skilful to stir up the 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 darkened; Let it long for light, and have none; Neither let it see the eyelashes 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, And hid not 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 at my birth? Why did I not expire when I came forth from the womb?
12 why? to meet me knee and what? breast for to suckle
Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I might suck?
13 for now to lie down: lay down and to quiet to sleep then to rest to/for me
For now should I lie down and be quiet; I should sleep; then should I be 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 for themselves—ruins!
15 or with ruler gold to/for them [the] to fill house: home their silver: money
Or with princes that had gold, And 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 perished; As infants which never saw the light.
17 there wicked to cease turmoil and there to rest weary strength
There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest.
18 unitedness prisoner to rest not to hear: hear voice to oppress
There the prisoners rest together; They hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19 small and great: large there he/she/it and servant/slave free from lord his
The small and the great are there, 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
Why giveth He light to him that is in misery, And life to the bitter in soul,
21 [the] to wait to/for death and nothing he and to search him from treasure
Who long for death, and 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 exceedingly, Yea, exult, when they can find a grave?
23 to/for great man which way: journey his to hide and to fence god about/through/for him
Why is light given to a man from whom the 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 before I eat, And my groans 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 that which I dread overtaketh me; That at which I shudder cometh upon me.
26 not to prosper and not to quiet and not to rest and to come (in): come turmoil
I have no peace, nor quiet, nor respite: Misery cometh upon me continually.
