en_wbms - Job 3 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ After these things Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,

² and he said,

³ Perish the day in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, A man is conceived.

⁴ That day be turned into darknesses; God seek not it [from] above, and be it not in mind, neither be it lightened with light.

⁵ Darkness make it dark, and the shadow of death and of mist occupy it; and be it wrapped with bitterness.

⁶ Dark whirlwind hold that night; be it not reckoned among the days of the year, neither be it numbered among the months.

⁷ That night be sullen, and not worthy of praising.

⁸ Curse they it, that curse the day, that be ready to raise Leviathan[2].

⁹ [The] Stars of that night be they made dark with the darkness thereof; abide it light, and see it not, neither see it the beginning of the morrow-tide rising up.

¹⁰ For it closed not the doors of the womb, that bare me, neither it took away evil from mine eyes.

¹¹ Why was not I dead in the womb? why went I out of the womb, and perished not anon?

¹² Why was I taken on knees? why was I given suck with teats?

¹³ For now I sleeping should be still, and I should rest in my sleep,

¹⁴ with kings and counsellors of the earth, which build to them sullen places;

¹⁵ either with princes that have gold in possession, and fill their houses with silver;

¹⁶ either as a child, or a beast, born before the time, and hid, I should not have been; either as they that be conceived, and saw not light.

¹⁷ There wicked men ceased of making noise, and there men made weary of strength rested.

¹⁸ And sometime men bound together now be without dis-ease, they heard not the voice of the wrongful asker.

¹⁹ A little man and a great man be there, and a servant is free from his lord.

²⁰ Why is light given to the wretch, and life to them that be in bitterness of soul?

²¹ Which abide death, and it cometh not; as men that dig out treasure,

²² and joy greatly, when they have found a sepulchre?

²³ Why is light given to a man, whose way is hid, and God hath encompassed him with darknesses?

²⁴ Before that I eat, I sigh; and as of water flowing, so is my roaring.

²⁵ For the dread, which I dreaded, hath come to me; and that thing, that I shamed [of], hath befallen to me.

²⁶ Whether I dissembled or feigned not? whether I was not still? whether I rested not? and yet indignation hath come [up] on me.