Job 3
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,
2Job answered:
2And he said:
3“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.
4Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
4Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon 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.
5Let darkness, and the shadow of death cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.
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.
6Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.
7Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
7Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.
8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
8Let them curse it who curse the day. who are ready to raise up a leviathan:
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,
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:
10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.
11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
11Why did I not die in the womb, why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?
12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
12Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?
13For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
13For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep.
14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
14With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:
15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
15Or with princes, that possess gold, and All their houses with silver:
16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
16Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.
17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
17There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.
18There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
18And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.
19The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
19The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
20Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?
21who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
21That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:
22who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
22And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave.
23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
23To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?
24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
24Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:
25For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
25For the fear which I feared hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.
26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
26Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.
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