Job 3
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
World English Bible
1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
2And Job spoke, and said:
2Job answered:
3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.'
3“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
4Let that day be darkness; let not God inquire after it from above, neither let 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 claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
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.
6As 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.
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.
7Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein.
7Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9Let 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;
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 my mother's womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?
11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest —
13For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.
16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
18There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
18There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master.
19The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
20Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul —
20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
21Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
21who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22Who rejoice unto exultation, and are glad, when they can find the grave? —
22who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23To a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.
24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
25For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.
25For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26I was not at ease, neither was I quiet, neither had I rest; but trouble came.
26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
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