Job 3
1 Post hæc aperuit Job os suum, et maledixit diei suo,
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 et locutus est:
And Job answered and said,
3 [Pereat dies in qua natus sum, et nox in qua dictum est: Conceptus est homo.
Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
4 Dies ille vertatur in tenebras: non requirat eum Deus desuper, et non illustretur lumine.
Let that day be darkness. Let not God from above seek for it, nor let the light shine upon it.
5 Obscurent eum tenebræ et umbra mortis; occupet eum caligo, et involvatur amaritudine.
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.
6 Noctem illam tenebrosus turbo possideat; non computetur in diebus anni, nec numeretur in mensibus.
As for that night, let thick 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 Sit nox illa solitaria, nec laude digna.
Lo, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come in it.
8 Maledicant ei qui maledicunt diei, qui parati sunt suscitare Leviathan.
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Obtenebrentur stellæ caligine ejus; expectet lucem, et non videat, nec ortum surgentis auroræ.
Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, nor let it behold the eyelids of the morning.
10 Quia non conclusit ostia ventris qui portavit me, nec abstulit mala ab oculis meis.
Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
11 Quare non in vulva mortuus sum? egressus ex utero non statim perii?
Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12 Quare exceptus genibus? cur lactatus uberibus?
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
13 Nunc enim dormiens silerem, et somno meo requiescerem
For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest
14 cum regibus et consulibus terræ, qui ædificant sibi solitudines;
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built waste places for themselves,
15 aut cum principibus qui possident aurum, et replent domos suas argento;
or with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
16 aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem, vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem.
Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.
17 Ibi impii cessaverunt a tumultu, et ibi requieverunt fessi robore.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
18 Et quondam vincti pariter sine molestia, non audierunt vocem exactoris.
There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 Parvus et magnus ibi sunt, et servus liber a domino suo.
The small and the great are there. And the servant is free from his master.
20 Quare misero data est lux, et vita his qui in amaritudine animæ sunt:
Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
21 qui expectant mortem, et non venit, quasi effodientes thesaurum;
who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures,
22 gaudentque vehementer cum invenerint sepulchrum?
who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave?
23 viro cujus abscondita est via et circumdedit eum Deus tenebris?
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
24 Antequam comedam, suspiro; et tamquam inundantes aquæ, sic rugitus meus:
For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.
25 quia timor quem timebam evenit mihi, et quod verebar accidit.
For the thing which I fear comes upon me, and that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26 Nonne dissimulavi? nonne silui? nonne quievi? et venit super me indignatio.]
I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, neither have I rest, but trouble comes.
