Rotherham - Job - 3

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

3:2  So then Job began, and said:

3:3  Perish, the day wherein I was born, and the night it was said, Lo! a manchild!

3:4  That day, be it darkness,—Let not God enquire after it from above, May there shine upon it no clear beam:

3:5  Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day’s dark eclipse cause it terror:

3:6  That night, darkness take it,—May it not rejoice among the days of the year, Into the number of months, let it not enter.

3:7  Lo! that night, be it barren, Let no joyous shouting enter therein:

3:8  Let day-cursers denounce it, Those skilled in rousing the dragon of the sky:

3:9  Darkened be the stars of its twilight,—Let it wait for light, and there be none, neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn:

3:10  Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.

3:11  Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?

3:12  For what reason, were there prepared for me—knees? and why—breasts, that I might suck?

3:13  Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest:

3:14  With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids:

3:15  Or with rulers possessing, gold,—Who had filled their houses with silver:

3:16  Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:

3:17  There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn are at rest:

3:18  At once are prisoners at peace, they hear not the voice of a driver:

3:19  Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.

3:20  Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul?—

3:21  Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:

3:22  Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave:

3:23  To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him?

3:24  For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:

3:25  For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.

3:26  I was not careless, nor was I secure, nor had I settled down,—when there came—consternation!