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After this time Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
And Job commenced, and said,
Oh that the day whereon I was born might perish, and the night when it was said, There hath been a male child conceived.
May that day be [covered with] darkness; may not God from above inquire for it, and may no light beam upon it.
5 ೫ ಕತ್ತಲೆಯೂ, ಘೋರಾಂಧಕಾರವೂ ಅದನ್ನು ವಶಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಿ. ಮೋಡವು ಅದನ್ನು ಕವಿಯಲಿ, ಹಗಲನ್ನು ಮುಚ್ಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಮೊಬ್ಬು ಅದನ್ನು ಹೆದರಿಸಲಿ.
Oh that darkness and the shadow of death might defile it; may a cloud rest upon it; may the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 ೬ ಕಾರ್ಗತ್ತಲು ಆ ರಾತ್ರಿಯನ್ನು ಹಿಡಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳಲಿ, ಅದು ಮಾಸಗಳ ಲೆಕ್ಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರದೆ ಸಂವತ್ಸರದ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹರ್ಷಿಸದೆ ಇರಲಿ.
Yon night — let darkness seize upon it; let it not be united to the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the [periods lighted by the] moon.
Lo, may that night be solitary, let no song of joy occur thereon.
Let those denounce it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning cry.
9 ೯ ಆ ದಿನದಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಂಜಾನೆಯ ನಕ್ಷತ್ರಗಳೂ ಮಿಣುಕದೆ ಹೋಗಲಿ. ಅದು ಬೆಳಕನ್ನು ಎದುರುನೋಡಿದರೂ ಹೊಂದದಿರಲಿ. ಅರುಣೋದಯವೆಂಬ ರೆಪ್ಪೆ ತೆರೆಯುವುದನ್ನು ಅದು ಕಾಣದಿರಲಿ.
Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; let it hope for light, and there be none; and let it not behold the eyelids of the morning-dawn;
Because God closed not against me the doors of the womb, and thus concealed trouble from my eyes.
Why did I not die [the moment I issued] from the womb, and [why] was I not born merely to perish at once?
Wherefore were knees ready to receive me? and for what purpose were breasts there that I might suck?
For now should I be lying still and be quiet; I should sleep: then would I be at rest,
14 ೧೪ ಭೂಲೋಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಳುಬಿದ್ದ ಪಟ್ಟಣಗಳನ್ನು ತಮ್ಮ ಸಮಾಧಿಗಾಗಿ ಕಟ್ಟಿಸಿಕೊಂಡ ಅರಸರೊಂದಿಗೂ, ಮಂತ್ರಿಗಳೊಡನೆಯೂ ನಾನಿರುತ್ತಿದ್ದೆ.
With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build up ruined places for themselves;
15 ೧೫ ಬಂಗಾರವನ್ನು ಕೂಡಿಸಿಟ್ಟು ತಮ್ಮ ಮನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಬೆಳ್ಳಿಯಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿಸಿದ ಅಧಿಪತಿಗಳ ಸಂಗಡಲೂ ವಿಶ್ರಮಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದೆನು.
Or with princes possessing gold, who fill their houses with silver;
16 ೧೬ ಒಂದು ವೇಳೆ ನಾನು ಗರ್ಭಸ್ರಾವವಾಗಿ ಬಿದ್ದು, ಹೂಳಿಟ್ಟ ಪಿಂಡದಂತೆ, ಬೆಳಕನ್ನೇ ಕಾಣದೆ ಸತ್ತುಹೋದ ಕೂಸುಗಳಂತೆ ಜನ್ಮವಿಲ್ಲದವನಾಗಿ ಇರುತ್ತಿದ್ದೆನು.
Or as an untimely birth, hidden [from view] I should not exist; as infants that never have seen the light;
There [where] the wicked cease from troubling; and where the exhausted weary are at rest;
[Where] the prisoners repose together, [and] they hear no more the taskmaster's voice.
The small with the great is there, and the servant free from his master.
Wherefore giveth He now light to the labor-laden, and life unto the bitter in soul?
Who wait for death, which [cometh] not; and who dig for it sooner than for hidden treasures;
Who would rejoice even to exulting, who would be glad could they but find a grave?
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hidden, and around whom God hath placed a fence?
For before my food cometh my groaning, and like the water are poured forth my loud complaints.
Because what I greatly dreaded is come upon me, and what I apprehended is come unto me.
I have had no safety, and no quiet, and no rest; and [now] harrowing trouble is come.
