Verse
KJV
King James Version
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
After this opened
Job his mouth, and cursed
his day.
After this hath
Job opened
his mouth, and revileth
his day.
And Job spake,
and said,
And Job answereth
and saith:
--
Let the day perish wherein
I was
born, and the night in
which
it
was
said ,
There
is
a man child conceived.
Let the day perish in
which
I am
born, And the night that
hath
said :
`
A man -
child hath
been
conceived. '
Let
that day be darkness ;
let not God regard
it from above, neither
let the
light shine upon it.
That day --
let
it
be darkness ,
Let not God require
it from above, Nor
let light shine upon it.
Let darkness and the
shadow
of
death stain
it ;
let a cloud dwell
upon it ;
let the
blackness
of
the
day
terrify it.
Let darkness and death -shade
redeem
it ,
Let a cloud tabernacle
upon it ,
Let them
terrify it as
the
most
bitter
of
days
.
As
for
that night ,
let darkness seize
upon
it ;
let it not be joined
unto
the
days of the year, let
it
not
come
into the number of the
months.
That night --
let thick
darkness take
it ,
Let it not be united
to
days of the year, Into the number of months let
it
not
come
.
Lo ,
let
that night be solitary
, let no joyful
voice
come therein
.
Lo !
that night --
let
it
be gloomy
, Let no singing
come into
it
.
Let them
curse
it
that
curse
the day, who are ready to raise
up their
mourning
.
Let the cursers
of
day mark
it
, Who are ready to wake
up Leviathan
.
Let the stars of the
twilight thereof
be dark ;
let it look
for light, but
have
none ;
neither
let it see
the dawning
of the day:
Let the stars of its
twilight be dark ,
Let it wait
for light, and
there
is
none ,
And
let it not
look
on
the eyelids
of the dawn.
Because it shut
not up
the doors of my
mother's
womb ,
nor
hid
sorrow
from mine eyes.
Because it hath
not shut
the doors Of the
womb that
was
mine!
And
hide
misery
from mine eyes.
Why died
I
not
from the womb ?
why
did
I not give
up
the
ghost
when
I
came
out
of
the belly ?
Why from the womb do
I not die?
From
the belly I
have
come
forth
and
gasp!
Why
did
the
knees prevent
me? or
why
the
breasts that I should
suck?
Wherefore
have
knees been
before
me? And
what
`are'
breasts ,
that I suck?
For now should
I have lain still
and been
quiet, I should
have slept :
then had
I
been
at
rest,
For now ,
I have lain down,
and am
quiet, I have slept --
then there
is
rest to
me
,
With kings and counsellors of the
earth, which
build
desolate
places
for themselves ;
With kings and counsellors of earth, These
building
wastes
for themselves .
Or with princes that
had
gold, who
filled
their houses with silver :
Or with princes --
they
have
gold, They
are
filling
their houses `
with '
silver .
Or as an
hidden untimely
birth
I had
not been;
as infants which
never
saw
light.
(
Or as a
hidden abortion
I am
not ,
As infants --
they
have
not
seen
light. )
There the wicked cease
from
troubling ;
and there the
weary
be
at
rest.
There the wicked have
ceased
troubling ,
And there rest do
the
wearied
in
power
.
There
the
prisoners
rest
together ;
they hear
not the voice of the
oppressor.
Together prisoners
have
been
at
ease,
They have
not heard
the voice of an
exactor,
The
small and great are there ;
and
the servant is free from his master
.
Small and great `
are '
there the same.
And
a
servant `
is '
free from his lord
.
Wherefore
is
light
given
to him
that
is
in
misery
, and life unto
the bitter in
soul ;
Why
giveth
He
to the
miserable
light
, and life to
the bitter soul ?
Which
long
for death, but
it cometh
not ;
and dig
for
it more
than
for
hid treasures ;
Who
are
waiting
for death, and
it is
not ,
And they
seek
it above
hid treasures .
Which
rejoice
exceedingly,
and
are glad, when they can
find the
grave ?
Who
are glad --
unto
joy
, They
rejoice
when they find a
grave .
Why
is
light
given
to a man whose way is
hid
, and whom God hath
hedged
in
?
To a man whose way hath
been
hidden
, And whom God doth
shut
up
?
For my sighing cometh before
I
eat
, and my
roarings
are
poured out like
the
waters.
For before
my food,
my
sighing cometh, And poured out as
waters `are'
my
roarings
.
For the
thing
which
I greatly
feared is
come
upon
me, and that
which
I was afraid of is
come unto
me.
For a
fear
I feared and
it
meeteth
me, And what
I was afraid of doth
come to
me.
I was not in
safety,
neither
had
I
rest,
neither
was I quiet ;
yet
trouble came.
I was not safe
--
nor
was I quiet --
Nor
was
I
at
rest
--
and
trouble cometh!
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