Job 3
1 Ẹ̀yìn èyí ní Jobu yanu, ó sì fi ọjọ́ ìbí rẹ̀ ré
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 Jobu sọ, ó sì wí pé,
And Job answered and said:
3 “Kí ọjọ́ tí a bí mi kí ó di ìgbàgbé, àti òru ni, nínú èyí tí a wí pé, ‘A lóyún ọmọkùnrin kan!’
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, There is a man child conceived.
4 Kí ọjọ́ náà kí ó já si òkùnkùn, kí Ọlọ́run kí ó má ṣe kà á sí láti ọ̀run wá; bẹ́ẹ̀ ni kí ìmọ́lẹ̀ kí ó má ṣe mọ́ sí i.
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Kí òkùnkùn àti òjìji ikú fi ṣe ti ara wọn; kí àwọsánmọ̀ kí ó bà lé e; kí ìṣúdudu ọjọ́ kí ó pa láyà.
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 Kí òkùnkùn kí ó ṣú bo òru náà biribiri, kí ó má ṣe yọ pẹ̀lú ọjọ́ ọdún náà: kí a má ṣe kà a mọ́ iye ọjọ́ oṣù.
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 Kí òru náà kí ó yàgàn; kí ohun ayọ̀ kan kí ó má ṣe wọ inú rẹ̀ lọ.
Lo, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Kí àwọn tí í fi ọjọ́ gégùn ún kí o fi gégùn ún, tí wọ́n mura tán láti ru Lefitani sókè.
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Kí ìràwọ̀ òwúrọ̀ ọjọ́ rẹ̀ kí ó ṣókùnkùn; kí ó má wá ìmọ́lẹ̀, ṣùgbọ́n kí ó máa mọ́ sí i, bẹ́ẹ̀ ni kí ó má ṣe rí àfẹ̀mọ́júmọ́
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:
10 nítorí tí kò sé ìlẹ̀kùn inú ìyá mi, láti pa ìbànújẹ́ rẹ́ ní ojú mi.
Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
11 “Èéṣe tí èmi kò fi kú láti inú wá, tàbí tí èmi kò kú ní ìgbà tí mo ti inú jáde wá?
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12 Èéṣe tí orúnkún wá pàdé mi, tàbí ọmú tí èmi yóò mu?
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?
13 Ǹjẹ́ nísinsin yìí èmi ìbá ti dùbúlẹ̀ jẹ́ẹ́; èmi ìbá ti sùn, èmi ìbá ti sinmi
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest:
14 pẹ̀lú àwọn ọba àti ìgbìmọ̀ ayé tí wọ́n mọ ilé fún ara wọn wá dùbúlẹ̀ nínú ìsọdahoro.
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built up waste places for themselves;
15 Tàbí pẹ̀lú àwọn ọmọ-aládé tí ó ní wúrà, tí wọ́n sì fi fàdákà kun ilé wọn.
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16 Tàbí bí ọlẹ̀ tí a sin, èmi kì bá ti sí: bí ọmọ ìṣunú tí kò rí ìmọ́lẹ̀?
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17 Níbẹ̀ ni ẹni búburú ṣíwọ́ ìyọnilẹ́nu, níbẹ̀ ni ẹni àárẹ̀ wà nínú ìsinmi.
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18 Níbẹ̀ ni àwọn ìgbèkùn sinmi pọ̀, wọn kò gbóhùn amúnisìn mọ́.
There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
19 Àti èwe àti àgbà wà níbẹ̀, ẹrú sì di òmìnira kúrò lọ́wọ́ olówó rẹ̀.
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20 “Nítorí kí ni a ṣe fi ìmọ́lẹ̀ fún òtòṣì, àti ìyè fún ọlọ́kàn kíkorò,
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
21 tí wọ́n dúró de ikú, ṣùgbọ́n òun kò wá, tí wọ́n wá a jù ìṣúra tí a bò mọ́lẹ̀ pamọ́ lọ.
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22 Ẹni tí ó yọ̀ gidigidi, tí inú wọ́n sì dùn nígbà tí wọ́n wá ibojì òkú rí?
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 Kí ni a fi ìmọ́lẹ̀ fún ẹni tí ọ̀nà rẹ̀ fi ara pamọ́ fún, tí Ọlọ́run sì ṣọgbà dí mọ́ ká?
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24 Nítorí pé èémí-ẹ̀dùn wà ṣáájú oúnjẹ mi; ìkérora mi sì tú jáde bí omi.
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like water.
25 Nítorí pé ohun náà tí mo bẹ̀rù gidigidi ni ó dé bá mi yìí, àti ohun tí mo fòyà rẹ̀ bá mi ó sì ṣubú lù mí.
For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, and that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
26 Èmi wà láìní àlàáfíà, bẹ́ẹ̀ ni èmi kò ní ìsinmi; bẹ́ẹ̀ ni èmi kò ni ìfàyàbalẹ̀, bí kò ṣe ìdààmú.”
I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble cometh.
