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
Iyov 3
Orthodox Jewish Bible
3 After this opened Iyov his mouth, and cursed his yom.
2 And Iyov spoke, and said,
3 Let the yom perish wherein I was born, and halailah in which it was said, There is a gever born.
4 Let that yom be choshech; let not Elohim regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let choshech and the tzalmavet (shadow of death) claim it; let an anan dwell upon it; let the blackness of the yom terrify it.
6 As for that lailah, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the yamim of the shanah, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Hinei, let that lailah be barren; let no joyful shout come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the yam, who are ready to rouse Leviathan.
9 Let the kokhavim of the dawn thereof be dark; let it look for ohr, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the shachar,
10 Because it shut not up the dalatot of my mother’s womb, nor hid amal (tzoros) from mine eyes.
11 Why did I not come to mot at birth? Why did I not perish when I came out of the beten (belly, womb)?
12 Madua (why) were there birkayim to receive me? Or why the shadayim that from them I should nurse?
13 For atah (now) I would be lying still and quiet, have slept and been at rest,
14 With melachim and yo’atzim of ha’aretz, which build ruins for themselves;
15 Or with sarim (princes) that had zahav, who filled their batim (houses) with kesef;
16 Or as a hidden stillborn—I had not been!—as olelim which never saw ohr.
17 There the resha’im cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
18 There the asirim (prisoners, captives) rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19 The katon and gadol are there; and the eved is free from his adon.
20 Why is ohr given to him that is in misery, and chayyim unto the bitter in nefesh;
21 Which long for mavet, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the kever?
23 Why is ohr given to a gever whose derech is hidden, and whom Elohim hath hedged in?
24 For my sighing cometh instead of lechem, and my groanings are poured out like the mayim.
25 For the pachad (terror) which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I dreaded is come unto me.
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; and rogez (tzoros, turmoil) came.
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