| 3.1 |
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. |
| 3.2 |
Job answered: |
| 3.3 |
“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’ |
| 3.4 |
Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. |
| 3.5 |
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it. |
| 3.6 |
As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. |
| 3.7 |
Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. |
| 3.8 |
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. |
| 3.9 |
Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning, |
| 3.10 |
because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. |
| 3.11 |
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? |
| 3.12 |
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse? |
| 3.13 |
For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, |
| 3.14 |
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves; |
| 3.15 |
or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: |
| 3.16 |
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light. |
| 3.17 |
There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest. |
| 3.18 |
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster. |
| 3.19 |
The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master. |
| 3.20 |
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, |
| 3.21 |
Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, |
| 3.22 |
who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? |
| 3.23 |
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? |
| 3.24 |
For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water. |
| 3.25 |
For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me. |
| 3.26 |
I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes.” |
