Job 3
1And Iyov spoke, and said, 1
2Let the yom perish 1 wherein I was born, 1 and halailah in which it was said, 1 There is a gever born. 1
3Let that yom be choshech; 1 let not Elohim regard it from above, 1 neither let the light shine upon it. 1
4Let choshech and the tzalmavet (shadow of death) claim it; 1 let an anan dwell upon it; 1 let the blackness of the yom terrify it. 1
5As for that lailah, 1 let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the yamim of the shanah, 1 let it not come into the number of the months. 1
6Hinei, let that lailah be barren; 1 let no joyful shout come therein. 1
7Let them curse it that curse the yom, 1 who are ready to rouse Leviathan. 1
8Let the kokhavim of the dawn thereof be dark; 1 let it look for ohr, but have none; 1 neither let it see the dawning of the shachar, 1
9Because it shut not up the dalatot of my motherʼs womb, 1 nor hid amal (tzoros) from mine eyes. 1
10Why did I not come to mot at birth? 1 Why did I not perish when I came out of the beten (belly, womb)? 1
11Madua (why) were there birkayim to receive me? 1 Or why the shadayim that from them I should nurse? 1
12For atah (now) I would be lying still and quiet, 1 have slept and been at rest, 1
13With melachim and yo'atzim of ha'aretz, 1 which build ruins for themselves; 1
14Or with sarim (princes) that had zahav, 1 who filled their batim (houses) with kesef; 1
15Or as a hidden stillborn — I had not been! 1 — as olelim which never saw ohr. 1
16There the resha'im cease from troubling; 1 and there the weary are at rest. 1
17There the asirim (prisoners, captives) rest together; 1 they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 1
18The katon and gadol are there; 1 and the eved is free from his adon. 1
19Why is ohr given to him that is in misery, 1 and chayyim unto the bitter in nefesh; 1
20Which long for mavet, but it cometh not; 1 and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; 1
21Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, 1 when they can find the kever? 1
22Why is ohr given to a gever whose derech is hidden, 1 and whom Elohim hath hedged in? 1
23For my sighing cometh instead of lechem, 1 and my groanings are poured out like the mayim. 1
24For the pachad (terror) which I greatly feared is come upon me, 1 and that which I dreaded is come unto me. 1
25I was not in safety, neither had I rest, 1 neither was I quiet; 1 and rogez (tzoros, turmoil) came.