Job 3

1 after so to open Job [obj] lip his and to lighten [obj] day his

AFTER this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

2 and to answer Job and to say

And Job spake, and said,

3 to perish day to beget in/on/with him and [the] night to say to conceive great man

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

4 [the] day [the] he/she/it to be darkness not to seek him god from above and not to shine upon him light

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

5 to redeem: redeem him darkness and shadow to dwell upon him cloud to terrify him darkness day

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 [the] night [the] he/she/it to take: take him darkness not to rejoice in/on/with day year in/on/with number month not to come (in): come

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.

7 behold [the] night [the] he/she/it to be solitary not to come (in): come triumphing in/on/with him

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

8 to curse him to curse day [the] ready to rouse Leviathan

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

9 to darken star twilight his to await to/for light and nothing and not to see: see in/on/with eyelid dawn

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:

10 for not to shut door belly: womb my and to hide trouble from eye my

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11 to/for what? not from womb to die from belly: womb to come out: produce and to die

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12 why? to meet me knee and what? breast for to suckle

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

13 for now to lie down: lay down and to quiet to sleep then to rest to/for me

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14 with king and to advise land: country/planet [the] to build desolation to/for them

With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

15 or with ruler gold to/for them [the] to fill house: home their silver: money

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

16 or like/as miscarriage to hide not to be like/as infant not to see: see light

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

17 there wicked to cease turmoil and there to rest weary strength

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

18 unitedness prisoner to rest not to hear: hear voice to oppress

There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

19 small and great: large there he/she/it and servant/slave free from lord his

The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

20 to/for what? to give: give to/for labour(er) light and life to/for bitter soul

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

21 [the] to wait to/for death and nothing he and to search him from treasure

Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

22 [the] glad to(wards) rejoicing to rejoice for to find grave

Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

23 to/for great man which way: journey his to hide and to fence god about/through/for him

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

24 for to/for face: before food: bread my sighing my to come (in): come and to pour like/as water roaring my

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

25 for dread to dread and to come me and which to fear to come (in): come to/for me

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

26 not to prosper and not to quiet and not to rest and to come (in): come turmoil

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.