en_cjb - Job 3 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ [(2)] Iyov said,

² [(3)] “Perish the day I was born and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’

³ [(4)] May that day be darkness, may God on high not seek it, may no light shine on it,

⁴ [(5)] may gloom dark as death defile it, may clouds settle on it, may it be terrified by its own blackness.

⁵ [(6)] “As for that night, may thick darkness seize it, may it not be joined to the days of the year, may it not be numbered among the months;

⁶ [(7)] may that night be desolate, may no cry of joy be heard in it;

⁷ [(8)] may those who curse days curse it, those who[se curses] could rouse Livyatan;

⁸ [(9)] may the stars of its twilight be dark, may it look for light but get none, may it never see the shimmer of dawn —

⁹ [(10)] because it didn’t shut the doors of the womb I was in and shield my eyes from trouble.

¹⁰ [(11)] “If I had been stillborn, if I had died at birth,

¹¹ [(12)] had there been no knees to receive me or breasts for me to suck.

¹² [(13)] Then I would be lying still and in peace, I would have slept and been at rest,

¹³ [(14)] along with kings and their earthly advisers, who rebuilt ruins for themselves,

¹⁴ [(15)] or with princes who had [plenty of] gold, who filled their houses with silver.

¹⁵ [(16)] Or I could have been like a hidden, miscarried child that never saw light.

¹⁶ [(17)] “There the wicked cease their raging, there the weary are at rest,

¹⁷ [(18)] prisoners live at peace together without hearing a taskmaster’s yells.

¹⁸ [(19)] Great and small alike are there, and the slave is free of his master.

¹⁹ [(20)] “So why must light be given to the miserable and life to the bitter in spirit?

²⁰ [(21)] They long for death, but it never comes; they search for it more than for buried treasure;

²¹ [(22)] when at last they find the grave, they are so happy they shout for joy.

²² [(23)] [Why give light] to a man who wanders blindly, whom God shuts in on every side?

²³ [(24)] “My sighing serves in place of my food, and my groans pour out in a torrent;

²⁴ [(25)] for the thing I feared has overwhelmed me, what I dreaded has happened to me.

²⁵ [(26)] I have no peace, no quiet, no rest; and anguish keeps coming.”