अय्यूब 3
After this Job has opened his mouth, and reviles his day.
And Job answers and says:
“Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that has said: A man-child has been conceived.
That day—let it be darkness, Do not let God require it from above, Nor let light shine on it.
5 ५ अंधियारा और मृत्यु की छाया उस पर रहे। बादल उस पर छाए रहें; और दिन को अंधेरा कर देनेवाली चीजें उसे डराएँ।
Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud dwell on it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.
6 ६ घोर अंधकार उस रात को पकड़े; वर्षा के दिनों के बीच वह आनन्द न करने पाए, और न महीनों में उसकी गिनती की जाए।
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.
Behold! That night—let it be barren, Let no singing come into it.
Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.
9 ९ उसकी संध्या के तारे प्रकाश न दें; वह उजियाले की बाट जोहे पर वह उसे न मिले, वह भोर की पलकों को भी देखने न पाए;
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.
Because it has not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from my eyes.
Why do I not die from the womb? I have come forth from the belly and gasp!
Why have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?
For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept—then there is rest to me,
14 १४ और मैं पृथ्वी के उन राजाओं और मंत्रियों के साथ होता जिन्होंने अपने लिये सुनसान स्थान बनवा लिए,
With kings and counselors of earth, These building ruins for themselves.
15 १५ या मैं उन राजकुमारों के साथ होता जिनके पास सोना था जिन्होंने अपने घरों को चाँदी से भर लिया था;
Or with princes—they have gold, They are filling their houses [with] silver.
16 १६ या मैं असमय गिरे हुए गर्भ के समान हुआ होता, या ऐसे बच्चों के समान होता जिन्होंने उजियाले को कभी देखा ही न हो।
(Or I am not as a hidden abortion, As infants—they have not seen light.)
There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there the wearied rest in power.
Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
Small and great [are] the same there. And a servant [is] free from his lord.
Why does He give light to the miserable, and life to the bitter soul?
Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.
Who are glad—to joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.
23 २३ उजियाला उस पुरुष को क्यों मिलता है जिसका मार्ग छिपा है, जिसके चारों ओर परमेश्वर ने घेरा बाँध दिया है?
To a man whose way has been hidden, And whom God shuts up?
24 २४ मुझे तो रोटी खाने के बदले लम्बी-लम्बी साँसें आती हैं, और मेरा विलाप धारा के समान बहता रहता है।
For before my food, my sighing comes, And my roarings [are] poured out as waters.
25 २५ क्योंकि जिस डरावनी बात से मैं डरता हूँ, वही मुझ पर आ पड़ती है, और जिस बात से मैं भय खाता हूँ वही मुझ पर आ जाती है।
For I feared a fear and it meets me, And what I was afraid of comes to me.
I was not safe—nor was I quiet—Nor was I at rest—and trouble comes!”
