ASV(i)
1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 And Job answered and said:
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born,
And the night which said,
There is a man-child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness;
Let not God from above seek for it,
Neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;
Let a cloud dwell upon it;
Let all that maketh black the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it:
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
Let it not come into the number of the months. 7 Lo, let that night be barren;
Let no joyful voice come therein. 8 Let them curse it that curse the day,
Who are ready to rouse up leviathan. 9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark:
Let it look for light, but have none;
Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning: 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb,
Nor hid trouble from mine eyes. 11 Why died I not from the womb?
Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? 12 Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breast, that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet;
I should have slept; then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth,
Who built up waste places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
As infants that never saw light. 17 There the wicked cease from troubling;
And there the weary are at rest. 18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
They hear not the voice of the taskmaster. 19 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; 21 Who long for death, but it cometh not,
And dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Who rejoice exceedingly,
And are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid,
And whom God hath hedged in? 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat,
And my groanings are poured out like water. 25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me,
And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me. 26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;
But trouble cometh.
And the night which said,
There is a man-child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness;
Let not God from above seek for it,
Neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;
Let a cloud dwell upon it;
Let all that maketh black the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it:
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
Let it not come into the number of the months. 7 Lo, let that night be barren;
Let no joyful voice come therein. 8 Let them curse it that curse the day,
Who are ready to rouse up leviathan. 9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark:
Let it look for light, but have none;
Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning: 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb,
Nor hid trouble from mine eyes. 11 Why died I not from the womb?
Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? 12 Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breast, that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet;
I should have slept; then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth,
Who built up waste places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
As infants that never saw light. 17 There the wicked cease from troubling;
And there the weary are at rest. 18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
They hear not the voice of the taskmaster. 19 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; 21 Who long for death, but it cometh not,
And dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Who rejoice exceedingly,
And are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid,
And whom God hath hedged in? 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat,
And my groanings are poured out like water. 25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me,
And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me. 26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;
But trouble cometh.