Job 3

1 Finally, Job spoke, and he cursed the day that he was born.

After this Job began speaking, cursing the day of his birth.

2 He said,

He said,

3 “I wish that the day when I was born could be eradicated, and also the night when I was conceived.

“Wipe out the day I was born, and the night when it was announced that a boy had been conceived.

4 I wish that the day when I was born would have been covered in darkness. I wish that God who is in heaven [MTY] would have forgotten about that day, and that the sun would not have shone on it.

Turn that day to darkness. God above should not remember it. Don't let light shine on it.

5 I wish that thick/intense darkness would have filled that day, and that a black cloud would have come over it and blotted out all light and caused people to be terrified.

Take it back, darkness and death-shadow. A black cloud should overshadow it. It should be as terrifying as the darkness of an eclipse during the day.

6 I wish that the night when I was conceived would be erased from the calendar, with the result that it would never again appear as one night in any month, and that it would not be included in any calendar.

Blot out that night as if it never existed. Don't count it on the calendar. Don't let it have a day in any month.

7 I wish that no child would again be conceived on that night of the month [MET], and that no one would again be happy on that night.

Let that night be childless, with no sounds of happiness heard.

8 I want those people who (curse/put evil spells on) days—those who know how to arouse/awaken the great sea monster—to curse that day.

Those who place curses on certain days should curse it, those who have the power to raise Leviathan.

9 I wish that the stars that shone early in the morning on that day [after I was conceived] will not shine again. I want those stars to have wished in vain for light to shine; and that they would not have shone on that day.

Its early morning stars should stay dark. Looking for light, may none come, may it not see the glimmer of dawn

10 [That was an evil day] because my mother was able to conceive; instead, I was born, and I have now experienced all these terrible things.

for it did not shut my mother's womb to prevent me from seeing trouble.

11 “I wish that I had died [RHQ] when I was born— at the time I emerged from my mother’s womb.

Why wasn't I stillborn? Why didn't I die at birth?

12 I wish that my mother had not [RHQ] allowed me to live. I wish that she had not nursed me.

Why was there a lap for me to lie on, or breasts for me to suck?

13 If I had died at the time when I was born, I would be asleep, resting peacefully [in the place where the dead people are].

For now I would be lying down in peace. I would be sleeping and at rest,

14 I would be resting with kings whose [beautiful palaces] that they built are now in ruins (OR, who rebuilt [palaces] that had previously been destroyed), and I would be resting with their officials [who have also died].

along with the kings of this world and their officials whose palaces now lie in ruins,

15 I would be resting with princes who were wealthy, whose palaces were filled with gold and silver.

or with noblemen who collected gold and filled their houses with silver.

16 I wish that I had been buried like a child who died in its mother’s womb and never lived to see the light.

Why wasn't I a miscarriage, buried in secret, a baby who never saw the light?

17 After wicked people die, they do not cause any more troubles; those who are very tired now will rest.

There in the grave the wicked give no more trouble, and those whose strength is gone have their rest.

18 Those who were in prison rest peacefully [after they die]; they no longer have slave-drivers who curse them.

There prisoners take it easy—they don't hear the commands of their oppressors.

19 Rich people and poor people are alike after they die, and those who were slaves are no longer controlled by their masters.

Both small and great are there, and slaves are freed from their masters.

20 (“Why does God allow those who are suffering greatly [like me] to continue to remain alive?/I do not understand why God allows those who are suffering greatly [like me] to continue to remain alive.) [RHQ] Why does he allow those who are very miserable/distressed to keep living [RHQ]?

Why does God give life to those who are suffering, living bitterly miserable lives,

21 They long/want to die, but they do not die. They desire to die more than people desire to find a hidden treasure.

those who are waiting for death that does not come and who are looking for death more desperately than hunting for treasure?

22 When they finally die and are buried, they are very happy.

They're so incredibly happy when the reach the grave!

23 Those who do not know where they are [eventually] going when they die [RHQ], people whom God has forced [MET] to continue to live in misery, (it is not right that they continue to live./why do they continue to live?) [RHQ]

Why is light given to someone who doesn't know where they're going, someone God has fenced in?

24 I continually cry very much; as a result, I cannot eat; and I can never stop groaning.

My groans are the bread I eat; my raging tears are the water I drink.

25 Things that I always worried might happen to me, have happened to me; things that I always dreaded have happened to me.

For all that I feared has happened to me; everything that I dreaded has come upon me.

26 Now I have no peace [in my inner being], I have no peace; I cannot rest; instead, I have only troubles.”

I have no peace, no quiet, no rest. All that comes is rage.”