31After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day.+2And Job answereth and saith: --+3Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: `A man-child hath been conceived.'+4That day--let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.+5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.+6That 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. 7Lo! that night--let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it.+8Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.+9Let 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.+10Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.+11Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!+12Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I suck?+13For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept--then there is rest to me,+14With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.+15Or with princes--they have gold, They are filling their houses with silver.+16(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants--they have not seen light.)+17There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.+18Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,+19Small and great are there the same. And a servant is free from his lord.+20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?+21Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.+22Who are glad--unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.+23To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?+24For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters are my roarings.+25For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me.+26I was not safe--nor was I quiet--Nor was I at rest--and trouble cometh!+
Young's Literal Translation
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