Job 3
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
1Post hæc aperuit Job os suum, et maledixit diei suo,
2Job answered:
2et locutus est:
3“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
3[Pereat dies in qua natus sum, et nox in qua dictum est: Conceptus est homo.
4Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
4Dies ille vertatur in tenebras: non requirat eum Deus desuper, et non illustretur lumine.
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.
5Obscurent eum tenebræ et umbra mortis; occupet eum caligo, et involvatur amaritudine.
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.
6Noctem illam tenebrosus turbo possideat; non computetur in diebus anni, nec numeretur in mensibus.
7Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
7Sit nox illa solitaria, nec laude digna.
8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
8Maledicant ei qui maledicunt diei, qui parati sunt suscitare 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,
9Obtenebrentur stellæ caligine ejus; expectet lucem, et non videat, nec ortum surgentis auroræ.
10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
10Quia non conclusit ostia ventris qui portavit me, nec abstulit mala ab oculis meis.
11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
11Quare non in vulva mortuus sum? egressus ex utero non statim perii?
12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
12Quare exceptus genibus? cur lactatus uberibus?
13For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
13Nunc enim dormiens silerem, et somno meo requiescerem
14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
14cum regibus et consulibus terræ, qui ædificant sibi solitudines;
15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
15aut cum principibus qui possident aurum, et replent domos suas argento;
16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
16aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem, vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem.
17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
17Ibi impii cessaverunt a tumultu, et ibi requieverunt fessi robore.
18There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
18Et quondam vincti pariter sine molestia, non audierunt vocem exactoris.
19The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
19Parvus et magnus ibi sunt, et servus liber a domino suo.
20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
20Quare misero data est lux, et vita his qui in amaritudine animæ sunt:
21who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
21qui expectant mortem, et non venit, quasi effodientes thesaurum;
22who 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 hidden, whom God has hedged in?
23viro cujus abscondita est via et circumdedit eum Deus tenebris?
24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
24Antequam comedam, suspiro; et tamquam inundantes aquæ, sic rugitus meus:
25For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
25quia timor quem timebam evenit mihi, et quod verebar accidit.
26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
26Nonne dissimulavi? nonne silui? nonne quievi? et venit super me indignatio.]
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