Job 3
1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
post haec aperuit Iob os suum et maledixit diei suo
2 Job answered:
et locutus est
3 “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
pereat dies in qua natus sum et nox in qua dictum est conceptus est homo
4 Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
dies ille vertatur in tenebras non requirat eum Deus desuper et non inlustret lumine
5 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.
obscurent eum tenebrae et umbra mortis occupet eum caligo et involvatur amaritudine
6 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.
noctem illam tenebrosus turbo possideat non conputetur in diebus anni nec numeretur in mensibus
7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
sit nox illa solitaria nec laude digna
8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
maledicant ei qui maledicunt diei qui parati sunt suscitare Leviathan
9 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,
obtenebrentur stellae caligine eius expectet lucem et non videat nec ortum surgentis aurorae
10 because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
quia non conclusit ostia ventris qui portavit me nec abstulit mala ab oculis meis
11 “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
quare non in vulva mortuus sum egressus ex utero non statim perii
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
quare exceptus genibus cur lactatus uberibus
13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
nunc enim dormiens silerem et somno meo requiescerem
14 with kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
cum regibus et consulibus terrae qui aedificant sibi solitudines
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
aut cum principibus qui possident aurum et replent domos suas argento
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem
17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
ibi impii cessaverunt a tumultu et ibi requieverunt fessi robore
18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
et quondam vincti pariter sine molestia non audierunt vocem exactoris
19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
parvus et magnus ibi sunt et servus liber a domino suo
20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
quare data est misero lux et vita his qui in amaritudine animae sunt
21 who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
qui expectant mortem et non venit quasi effodientes thesaurum
22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
gaudentque vehementer cum invenerint sepulchrum
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
viro cuius abscondita est via et circumdedit eum Deus tenebris
24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
antequam comedam suspiro et quasi inundantes aquae sic rugitus meus
25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
quia timor quem timebam evenit mihi et quod verebar accidit
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
nonne dissimulavi nonne silui nonne quievi et venit super me indignatio
