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| 1. | After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. | After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. | Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth, | ||
| 2. | And Job spake, and said, | Job answered: | Job made answer and said, | ||
| 3. | Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. | "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.' | Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world. | ||
| 4. | Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. | Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. | That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it; | ||
| 5. | Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. | Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it. | Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it. | ||
| 6. | As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. | As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. | That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. | ||
| 7. | Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. | Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. | As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it; | ||
| 8. | Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. | Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. | Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake. | ||
| 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: | Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning, | Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn. | ||
| 10. | Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. | because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. | Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes. | ||
| 11. | Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? | "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? | Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath? | ||
| 12. | Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? | Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? | Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk? | ||
| 13. | For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, | For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, | For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace, | ||
| 14. | With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; | with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves; | With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves; | ||
| 15. | Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: | or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: | Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver; | ||
| 16. | Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. | or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light. | Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light. | ||
| 17. | There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. | There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest. | There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest. | ||
| 18. | There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. | There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster. | There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears. | ||
| 19. | The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. | The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master. | The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master. | ||
| 20. | Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; | "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, | Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul; | ||
| 21. | Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; | Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, | To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth; | ||
| 22. | Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? | who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? | Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place; | ||
| 23. | Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? | Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in? | To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God? | ||
| 24. | For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. | For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water. | In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water. | ||
| 25. | For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. | For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me. | For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled. | ||
| 26. | I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. | I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes." | I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me. | ||