Job 3 — TOJB

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