Iyov 3

¹And Iyov spoke, and said,

²Let the yom perish

wherein I was born,

and halailah in which it was said,

There is a gever born.

³Let that yom be choshech;

let not Elohim regard it from above,

neither let the light shine upon it.

⁴Let choshech and the tzalmavet (shadow of death) claim it;

let an anan dwell upon it;

let the blackness of the yom terrify it.

⁵As 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.

⁶Hinei, let that lailah be barren;

let no joyful shout come therein.

⁷Let them curse it that curse the yom,

who are ready to rouse Leviathan.

⁸Let 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,

⁹Because it shut not up the dalatot of my motherʼs womb,

nor hid amal (tzoros) from mine eyes.

¹⁰Why did I not come to mot at birth?

Why did I not perish when I came out of the beten (belly, womb) ?

¹¹Madua (why) were there birkayim to receive me?

Or why the shadayim that from them I should nurse?

¹²For atah (now) I would be lying still and quiet,

have slept and been at rest,

¹³With melachim and yo'atzim of ha'aretz,

which build ruins for themselves;

¹⁴Or with sarim (princes) that had zahav,

who filled their batim (houses) with kesef;

¹⁵Or as a hidden stillborn — I had not been!

— as olelim which never saw ohr.

¹⁶There the resha'im cease from troubling;

and there the weary are at rest.

¹⁷There the asirim (prisoners, captives) rest together;

they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

¹⁸The katon and gadol are there;

and the eved is free from his adon.

¹⁹Why is ohr given to him that is in misery,

and chayyim unto the bitter in nefesh;

²⁰Which long for mavet, but it cometh not;

and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

²¹Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad,

when they can find the kever?

²²Why is ohr given to a gever whose derech is hidden,

and whom Elohim hath hedged in?

²³For my sighing cometh instead of lechem,

and my groanings are poured out like the mayim.

²⁴For the pachad (terror) which I greatly feared is come upon me,

and that which I dreaded is come unto me.

²⁵I was not in safety, neither had I rest,

neither was I quiet;

and rogez (tzoros, turmoil) came.