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Job’s Lament
Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
Job Laments his Birth
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
“Let the day perish on which I was to be born,
And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
“May that day be darkness;
Let not God above care for it,
Nor light shine on it.
Let not God above care for it,
Nor light shine on it.
That day -- let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:
“Let darkness and black gloom claim it;
Let a cloud settle on it;
Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Let a cloud settle on it;
Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
“As for that night, let darkness seize it;
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
Let it not come into the number of the months.
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
Let it not come into the number of the months.
That night -- let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
“Behold, let that night be barren;
Let no joyful shout enter it.
Let no joyful shout enter it.
Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;
“Let those curse it who curse the day,
Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
“Let the stars of its twilight be darkened;
Let it wait for light but have none,
And let it not see the breaking dawn;
Let it wait for light but have none,
And let it not see the breaking dawn;
Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:
Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.
Or hide trouble from my eyes.
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?
Come forth from the womb and expire?
Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -- come forth from the belly and expire?
“Why did the knees receive me,
And why the breasts, that I should suck?
And why the breasts, that I should suck?
Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
“For now I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
With kings and with counselors of the earth,
Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,
Or with princes who had gold,
Who were filling their houses with silver.
Who were filling their houses with silver.
Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
“Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be,
As infants that never saw light.
As infants that never saw light.
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
“There the wicked cease from raging,
And there the weary are at rest.
And there the weary are at rest.
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
“The prisoners are at ease together;
They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
“The small and the great are there,
And the slave is free from his master.
And the slave is free from his master.
The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.
“Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,
And life to the bitter of soul,
Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
Who long for death, but there is none,
And dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
And dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
Who rejoice greatly,
And exult when they find the grave?
And exult when they find the grave?
Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? --
“Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?
And whom God has hedged in?
To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?
“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries pour out like water.
And my cries pour out like water.
For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
“For what I fear comes upon me,
And what I dread befalls me.
And what I dread befalls me.
For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.