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1 Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,
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After this opened Iyov his mouth, and cursed his yom.
2 Job made answer and said,
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And Iyov spoke, and said,
3 Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.
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Let the yom perish wherein I was born, and halailah in which it was said, There is a gever born.
4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;
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Let that yom be choshech; let not Elohim regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
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Let choshech and the tzalmavet (shadow of death) claim it; let an anan dwell upon it; let the blackness of the yom terrify it.
6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
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As 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.
7 As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;
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Hinei, let that lailah be barren; let no joyful shout come therein.
8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.
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Let them curse it that curse the yam, who are ready to rouse Leviathan.
9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.
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Let 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,
10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.
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Because it shut not up the dalatot of my mother’s womb, nor hid amal (tzoros) from mine eyes.
11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
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Why did I not come to mot at birth? Why did I not perish when I came out of the beten (belly, womb)?
12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
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Madua (why) were there birkayim to receive me? Or why the shadayim that from them I should nurse?
13 For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
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For atah (now) I would be lying still and quiet, have slept and been at rest,
14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;
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With melachim and yo’atzim of ha’aretz, which build ruins for themselves;
15 Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;
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Or with sarim (princes) that had zahav, who filled their batim (houses) with kesef;
16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
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Or as a hidden stillborn—I had not been!—as olelim which never saw ohr.
17 There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
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There the resha’im cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
18 There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.
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There the asirim (prisoners, captives) rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19 The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
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The katon and gadol are there; and the eved is free from his adon.
20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
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Why is ohr given to him that is in misery, and chayyim unto the bitter in nefesh;
21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;
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Which long for mavet, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
22 Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;
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Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the kever?
23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?
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Why is ohr given to a gever whose derech is hidden, and whom Elohim hath hedged in?
24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
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For my sighing cometh instead of lechem, and my groanings are poured out like the mayim.
25 For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.
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For the pachad (terror) which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I dreaded is come unto me.
26 I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.
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I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; and rogez (tzoros, turmoil) came.
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