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| Job 3: (YLT) |
| 1) After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day. |
| 2) And Job answereth and saith: -- |
| 3) Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: 'A man-child hath been conceived.' |
| 4) That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it. |
| 5) Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days. |
| 6) That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come. |
| 7) Lo! that night -- let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it. |
| 8) Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan. |
| 9) Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn. |
| 10) Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes. |
| 11) Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp! |
| 12) Wherefore have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck? |
| 13) For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me, |
| 14) With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves. |
| 15) Or with princes -- they have gold, They are filling their houses [with] silver. |
| 16) (Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.) |
| 17) There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power. |
| 18) Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor, |
| 19) Small and great [are] there the same. And a servant [is] free from his lord. |
| 20) Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul? |
| 21) Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures. |
| 22) Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave. |
| 23) To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up? |
| 24) For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters [are] my roarings. |
| 25) For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me. |
| 26) I was not safe -- nor was I quiet -- Nor was I at rest -- and trouble cometh! |