ਅੱਯੂਬ 3
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
And Job answered and said:
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, There is a man child conceived.
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
6 ੬ ਘੁੱਪ ਹਨ੍ਹੇਰਾ ਉਹ ਨੂੰ ਆ ਫੜ੍ਹੇ, ਉਹ ਸਾਲ ਦੇ ਦਿਨਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਨੰਦ ਨਾ ਮਨਾਵੇ, ਅਤੇ ਨਾ ਉਹ ਮਹੀਨਿਆਂ ਦੀ ਗਿਣਤੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਆਵੇ!
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.
Lo, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice come therein.
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 ੯ ਉਹ ਦੇ ਸ਼ਾਮ ਦੇ ਤਾਰੇ ਕਾਲੇ ਹੋ ਜਾਣ, ਉਹ ਚਾਨਣ ਨੂੰ ਉਡੀਕੇ ਪਰ ਉਹ ਹੋਵੇ ਨਾ, ਉਹ ਸਵੇਰ ਦੀਆਂ ਕਿਰਨਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਨਾ ਵੇਖੇ,
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest:
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built up waste places for themselves;
15 ੧੫ ਜਾਂ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਰਾਜਕੁਮਾਰਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਹੁੰਦਾ, ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੇ ਕੋਲ ਸੋਨਾ ਸੀ, ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਘਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਚਾਂਦੀ ਨਾਲ ਭਰਿਆ ਸੀ।
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16 ੧੬ ਜਾਂ ਮੈਂ ਸਮੇਂ ਤੋਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਜੰਮੇ ਹੋਏ ਬੱਚੇ ਵਾਂਗੂੰ ਹੁੰਦਾ, ਜਾਂ ਅਜਿਹੇ ਬੱਚਿਆਂ ਵਾਂਗੂੰ ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੇ ਚਾਨਣਾ ਕਦੀ ਵੇਖਿਆ ਹੀ ਨਹੀਂ।
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 ੨੩ ਉਸ ਪੁਰਖ ਨੂੰ ਵੀ ਚਾਨਣ ਕਿਉਂ ਮਿਲਦਾ ਹੈ ਜਿਸ ਦਾ ਰਾਹ ਲੁਕਿਆ ਹੋਇਆ ਹੈ, ਅਤੇ ਜਿਸ ਦੇ ਚੁਫ਼ੇਰੇ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਨੇ ਵਾੜ ਲਾਈ ਹੋਈ ਹੈ?
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like water.
25 ੨੫ ਜਿਸ ਗੱਲ ਤੋਂ ਮੈਂ ਡਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ, ਉਹ ਮੇਰੇ ਉੱਤੇ ਆ ਪੈਂਦੀ ਹੈ, ਅਤੇ ਜਿਸ ਤੋਂ ਮੈਂ ਭੈਅ ਖਾਂਦਾ ਹਾਂ ਉਹ ਵੀ ਮੇਰੇ ਉੱਤੇ ਆਉਂਦੀ ਹੈ।
For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, and that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble cometh.
