Job 3
King James Version with ApocryphaTranslation
King James Version with Apocrypha
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
1Post hæc aperuit Job os suum, et maledixit diei suo,
2And Job spake, and said,
2et locutus est:
3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
3[Pereat dies in qua natus sum, et nox in qua dictum est: Conceptus est homo.
4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
4Dies ille vertatur in tenebras: non requirat eum Deus desuper, et non illustretur lumine.
5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
5Obscurent eum tenebræ et umbra mortis; occupet eum caligo, et involvatur amaritudine.
6As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
6Noctem illam tenebrosus turbo possideat; non computetur in diebus anni, nec numeretur in mensibus.
7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
7Sit nox illa solitaria, nec laude digna.
8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
8Maledicant ei qui maledicunt diei, qui parati sunt suscitare Leviathan.
9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
9Obtenebrentur stellæ caligine ejus; expectet lucem, et non videat, nec ortum surgentis auroræ.
10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
10Quia non conclusit ostia ventris qui portavit me, nec abstulit mala ab oculis meis.
11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
11Quare non in vulva mortuus sum? egressus ex utero non statim perii?
12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
12Quare exceptus genibus? cur lactatus uberibus?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
13Nunc enim dormiens silerem, et somno meo requiescerem
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
14cum regibus et consulibus terræ, qui ædificant sibi solitudines;
15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
15aut cum principibus qui possident aurum, et replent domos suas argento;
16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
16aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem, vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem.
17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
17Ibi impii cessaverunt a tumultu, et ibi requieverunt fessi robore.
18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
18Et quondam vincti pariter sine molestia, non audierunt vocem exactoris.
19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
19Parvus et magnus ibi sunt, et servus liber a domino suo.
20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
20Quare misero data est lux, et vita his qui in amaritudine animæ sunt:
21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
21qui expectant mortem, et non venit, quasi effodientes thesaurum;
22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
22gaudentque vehementer cum invenerint sepulchrum?
23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
23viro cujus abscondita est via et circumdedit eum Deus tenebris?
24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
24Antequam comedam, suspiro; et tamquam inundantes aquæ, sic rugitus meus:
25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
25quia timor quem timebam evenit mihi, et quod verebar accidit.
26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
26Nonne dissimulavi? nonne silui? nonne quievi? et venit super me indignatio.]
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