Job 3
Magandang Balita Biblia
Dumaing si Job sa Diyos
3 Pagkaraan(A) ng matagal na pananahimik, nagsalita si Job at isinumpa ang araw nang siya'y isilang.
2 Ito ang kanyang sinabi:
3 “Hindi(B) na sana ako ipinanganak pa
at hindi na rin sana ako ipinaglihi.
4 Nabalot na sana ng dilim
at huwag mo na sanang maalala pa ang araw na iyon, O Diyos.
Huwag mo na sanang pasikatan pa ito ng liwanag.
5 Nanatili na lamang sana ito sa takip ng kadiliman,
at nabalot ng ulap, upang huwag nang sikatan ng araw.
6 Nalagas sana ito sa tangkay ng panahon,
at hindi na napabilang sa aklat ng kasaysayan.
7 Ang gabing iyon sana'y malumbay; wala na sanang sigaw ng kagalakan,
8 at sumpain ng mga salamangkerong
nagpapaamo ng dambuhalang Leviatan.[a]
9 Huwag na sanang sumikat ang bituin sa umaga,
at huwag na sanang sundan ng umaga ang gabi.
10 Sumpain ang gabi ng aking pagsilang
na nagdulot sa akin ng ganitong kahirapan.
11 “Bakit hindi pa ako namatay sa tiyan ng aking ina,
o kaya'y noong ako'y isilang niya?
12 Bakit kaya ako ay idinuyan pa, kinalong, inalagaan,
at binigyan ng gatas sa dibdib niya?
13 Kung namatay ako noon, ako sana'y tahimik na, mahimbing na natutulog at nagpapahinga.
14 Katulad ng mga hari at pinunong yumao,
na noong panahon nila'y nagtayo ng mga palasyo.
15 Tahimik na sana ako tulad ng mga pinunong nakapag-imbak
sa kanilang bahay ng mga ginto at pilak,
16 o tulad ng mga sanggol na patay nang ipanganak at hindi na nakakita pa ng liwanag.
17 Sa libinga'y hindi na makakapanggulo ang mga masasama,
at doon ang mga napapagod ay makakapagpahinga.
18 Doon, pati mga bihag ay wala nang ligalig,
wala nang mga sigaw at utos na mabagsik.
19 Ang mga abâ at mga dakila ay sama-sama roon,
ang mga alipin ay malaya na sa kanilang panginoon.
20 “Bakit pa isinilang kung magdurusa rin lamang?
At bakit pa binuhay kung daranas din lang ng kahirapan?
21 Kamataya'y(C) hinahanap ngunit hindi matagpuan,
hinuhukay at ninanais higit pa sa kayamanan.
22 Sa kanila'y ubod-tamis nitong kamatayan.
23 Ano kaya ang dahilan at ang tao'y isinilang,
kung inilihim naman ng Diyos ang kanyang patutunguhan?
24 Karaingan ang aking pagkain,
pagtitiis ang aking inumin.
25 Ang kinatatakutan ko ang siyang nangyari sa akin, at ang pinakaaayawan ko ang dumating sa akin.
26 Hindi ako mapalagay, wala akong kapayapaan,
kaguluhan sa buhay ko ay walang katapusan.”
Footnotes
- Job 3:8 LEVIATAN: Isang mala-alamat na dambuhalang halimaw sa karagatan na sumisimbolo sa kaguluhan at kasamaan.
Job 3
English Standard Version
Job Laments His Birth
3 After this Job (A)opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job said:
3 (B)“Let the day perish on which I was born,
and the night that said,
‘A man is conceived.’
4 Let that day be darkness!
May God above not seek it,
nor light shine upon it.
5 Let gloom and (C)deep darkness claim it.
Let clouds dwell upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 That night—let thick darkness seize it!
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Behold, let that night be barren;
let no joyful cry enter it.
8 Let those curse it who curse the day,
who are ready to rouse up (D)Leviathan.
9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
let it hope for light, but have none,
nor see (E)the eyelids of the morning,
10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb,
nor hide trouble from my eyes.
11 “Why (F)did I not die at birth,
come out from the womb and expire?
12 Why did (G)the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
13 For then I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
14 with kings and counselors of the earth
who (H)rebuilt ruins for themselves,
15 or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
16 Or why was I not as a hidden (I)stillborn child,
as infants who never see the light?
17 There the wicked cease from troubling,
and there the weary are at (J)rest.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
they hear not the voice of (K)the taskmaster.
19 The small and the great are there,
and the slave is free from his master.
20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery,
and life to (L)the bitter in soul,
21 who (M)long for death, but it comes not,
and dig for it more than for (N)hidden treasures,
22 who rejoice exceedingly
and are glad when they find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose (O)way is hidden,
whom God has (P)hedged in?
24 For my sighing comes (Q)instead of[a] my bread,
and my (R)groanings are poured out like water.
25 (S)For the thing that I fear comes upon me,
and what I dread befalls me.
26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
I have no rest, but trouble comes.”
Footnotes
- Job 3:24 Or like; Hebrew before
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