Job 3
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
World English Bible
1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,
1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
2And he said:
2Job answered:
3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.
3“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
4Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.
4Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
5Let darkness, and the shadow of death cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.
5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
6Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.
6As 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.
7Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.
7Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
8Let them curse it who curse the day. who are ready to raise up a leviathan:
8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:
9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.
10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11Why did I not die in the womb, why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?
11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?
12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
13For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep.
13For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
14With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:
14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15Or with princes, that possess gold, and All their houses with silver:
15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.
16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
17There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.
17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
18And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.
18There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
19The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
20Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?
20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
21That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:
21who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave.
22who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?
23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:
24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
25For the fear which I feared hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.
25For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.
26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
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