Job 3

¹ After this, opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

¹ After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

¹ Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed ^(a)the day of his birth.

¹ After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born.

¹ After this, Job spoke up solemnly, cursing the day he was born.

³ Perish, the day wherein I was born, and the night it was said, Lo! a manchild!

³ Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

³ “^(A)Let the day perish on which I was to be born,And the night which said, ‘A ^(c)boy is conceived.’

³ May the day I was born perish,and the night when they said,“A boy is conceived.”^(A)

³ "Let the day when I was born be annihilated, along with the night when it was announced, "It's a boy!'

⁵ Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day's dark eclipse cause it terror:

⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

⁵ “Let ^(B)darkness and black gloom claim it;Let a cloud settle on it;Let the blackness of the day terrify it.

⁵ May darkness and gloom^(B) reclaim it,and a cloud settle over it.May an eclipse of the sun^(a) terrify it.

⁵ Let darkness and deep gloom reclaim it; let clouds settle down on it; let blackness in mid-day terrify it.

⁷ Lo! that night, be it barren, Let no joyous shouting enter therein:

⁷ Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

⁷ “Behold, let that night be barren;Let no joyful shout enter it.

⁷ Yes, may that night be barren;may no joyful shout^(C) be heard in it.

⁷ "Yes, let that night be barren; let it not appear with its joyful shout.

⁹ Darkened be the stars of its twilight, - Let it wait for light, and there be none, neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn:

⁹ Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

⁹ “Let the stars of its twilight be darkened;Let it wait for light but have none,And let it not see the ^(e)breaking dawn;

⁹ May its morning stars grow dark.May it wait for daylight but have none;may it not see the breaking^(d) of dawn.

⁹ Let the stars of its evening twilight be dark; let it hope for light but let there be none; let it not see the breaking rays of the dawn.

¹¹ Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?

¹¹ Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

¹¹ “^(D)Why did I not die ^(f)at birth,Come forth from the womb and expire?

¹¹ Why was I not stillborn;why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?^(F)

¹¹ Why didn't I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born?

¹³ Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest:

¹³ For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

¹³ “For now I ^(E)would have lain down and been quiet;I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,

¹³ Now I would certainly be lying down in peace;I would be asleep.^(H)Then I would be at rest^(I)

¹³ "If I had died, I would be lying down by now, undisturbed, asleep, and at rest,

¹⁵ Or with rulers possessing, gold, - Who had filled their houses with silver:

¹⁵ Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

¹⁵ Or with ^(I)princes ^(J)who had gold,Who were filling their houses with silver.

¹⁵ or with princes who had gold,who filled their houses^(K) with silver.

¹⁵ or princes who amassed gold for themselves, and who kept filling their houses with silver.

¹⁷ There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn are at rest:

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

¹⁷ “There the wicked cease from raging,And there the ^(h)weary are at ^(K)rest.

¹⁷ There the wicked^(M) cease to make trouble,and there the weary find rest.

¹⁷ In that place, the wicked stop causing trouble, and there, those whose strength is exhausted are at rest.

¹⁹ Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.

¹⁹ The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

¹⁹ “The small and the great are there,And the slave is free from his master.

¹⁹ Both small and great are there,and the slave is set free from his master.^(P)

¹⁹ The unimportant and the important are both there, and the servant is free from his master.

²¹ Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:

²¹ Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

²¹ Who ^(i)(M)long for death, but there is none,And dig for it more than for ^(N)hidden treasures,

²¹ who wait for death,^(R) but it does not come,and search for it more than for hidden treasure,

²¹ To those who are longing for death even though it does not come? To those who search for it more than for hidden treasure?

²³ To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him?

²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

²³ “Why is light given to a man ^(O)whose way is hidden,And whom ^(P)God has hedged in?

²³ Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden,^(T)whom God has hedged in?

²³ To the formerly successful man who lost his way in life, and God fenced him in?

²⁵ For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.

²⁵ For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

²⁵ “For ^(j)(S)what I fear comes upon me,And what I dread befalls me.

²⁵ For the thing I feared has overtaken me,and what I dreaded has happened to me.^(W)

²⁵ For the dreaded thing that I feared has happened to me, what caused me to worry has engulfed me.