CPDV - Job - 3

3:1  After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day,

3:2  and this is what he said:

3:3  May the day perish on which I was born, and the night, in which it was said, “A man has been conceived.”

3:4  May that day be turned into darkness, may God not seek it from above, and may light not illuminate it.

3:5  Let darkness and the shadow of death obscure it, let a fog overtake it, and let it be enveloped in bitterness.

3:6  Let a whirlwind of darkness take hold of that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.

3:7  May that night be alone and unworthy of praise.

3:8  May they curse it, who curse the day, who are prepared to awaken a leviathan.

3:9  Let the stars be concealed with its darkness. Let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawn in the East.

3:10  For it did not close the doors of the womb that bore me, nor take away evils from my eyes.

3:11  Why did I not die in the womb? Having left the womb, why did I not immediately perish?

3:12  Why was I received upon the knees? Why was I suckled at the breasts?

3:13  For by now, I should have been sleeping silently, and taking rest in my sleep

3:14  with the kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes,

3:15  either with princes, who possess gold and fill their houses with silver,

3:16  or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not have continued, just like those who, being conceived, have not seen the light.

3:17  There the impious cease from rebellion, and there the wearied in strength take rest.

3:18  And at such times, having been bound together without difficulty, they have not heard the voice of the bailiff.

3:19  The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.

3:20  Why is light given to the miserable, and life to those who are in bitterness of soul,

3:21  who expect death, and it does not arrive, like those who dig for treasure

3:22  and who rejoice greatly when they have found the grave,

3:23  to a man whose way is hidden and whom God has surrounded with darkness?

3:24  Before I eat, I sigh; and like overflowing waters, so is my howl,

3:25  for the terror that I feared has happened to me, and so has the dread befallen me.

3:26  Have I not remained hidden? Have I not kept silence? Have I not remained calm? Yet indignation has overcome me.