Job 3
1 after so to open Job [obj] lip his and to lighten [obj] day his
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
2 and to answer Job and to say
Job answered:
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 was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy 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. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the 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 the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black 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 on it. Let it not rejoice amongst 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
Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
8 to curse him to curse day [the] ready to rouse Leviathan
Let them curse it who 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 its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
10 for not to shut door belly: womb my and to hide trouble from eye my
because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11 to/for what? not from womb to die from belly: womb to come out: produce and to die
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12 why? to meet me knee and what? breast for to suckle
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
13 for now to lie down: lay down and to quiet to sleep then to rest to/for me
For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have 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 who 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 who never saw 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 are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 small and great: large there he/she/it and servant/slave free from lord his
The small and the great are there. 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 is light given to him who is in misery, 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, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22 [the] glad to(wards) rejoicing to rejoice for to find grave
who rejoice exceedingly, 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
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has 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 comes before I eat. My groanings 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 fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26 not to prosper and not to quiet and not to rest and to come (in): come turmoil
I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
