Parallel Bible results for "job 3"

Job 3

The Message Bible MSG

1 Then Job broke the silence. He spoke up and cursed his fate:

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3 "Obliterate the day I was born. Blank out the night I was conceived!

4 Let it be a black hole in space. May God above forget it ever happened. Erase it from the books!

5 May the day of my birth be buried in deep darkness, shrouded by the fog, swallowed by the night.

6 And the night of my conception - the devil take it! Rip the date off the calendar, delete it from the almanac.

7 Oh, turn that night into pure nothingness - no sounds of pleasure from that night, ever!

8 May those who are good at cursing curse that day. Unleash the sea beast, Leviathan, on it.

9 May its morning stars turn to black cinders, waiting for a daylight that never comes, never once seeing the first light of dawn.

10 And why? Because it released me from my mother's womb into a life with so much trouble.

11 "Why didn't I die at birth, my first breath out of the womb my last?

12 Why were there arms to rock me, and breasts for me to drink from?

13 I could be resting in peace right now, asleep forever, feeling no pain,

14 In the company of kings and statesmen in their royal ruins,

15 Or with princes resplendent in their gold and silver tombs.

16 Why wasn't I stillborn and buried with all the babies who never saw light,

17 Where the wicked no longer trouble anyone and bone-weary people get a long-deserved rest?

18 Prisoners sleep undisturbed, never again to wake up to the bark of the guards.

19 The small and the great are equals in that place, and slaves are free from their masters.

20 "Why does God bother giving light to the miserable, why bother keeping bitter people alive,

21 Those who want in the worst way to die, and can't, who can't imagine anything better than death,

22 Who count the day of their death and burial the happiest day of their life?

23 What's the point of life when it doesn't make sense, when God blocks all the roads to meaning?

24 "Instead of bread I get groans for my supper, then leave the table and vomit my anguish.

25 The worst of my fears has come true, what I've dreaded most has happened.

26 My repose is shattered, my peace destroyed. No rest for me, ever - death has invaded life."

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 post haec aperuit Iob os suum et maledixit diei suo

2 et locutus est

3 pereat dies in qua natus sum et nox in qua dictum est conceptus est homo

4 dies ille vertatur in tenebras non requirat eum Deus desuper et non inlustret lumine

5 obscurent eum tenebrae et umbra mortis occupet eum caligo et involvatur amaritudine

6 noctem illam tenebrosus turbo possideat non conputetur in diebus anni nec numeretur in mensibus

7 sit nox illa solitaria nec laude digna

8 maledicant ei qui maledicunt diei qui parati sunt suscitare Leviathan

9 obtenebrentur stellae caligine eius expectet lucem et non videat nec ortum surgentis aurorae

10 quia non conclusit ostia ventris qui portavit me nec abstulit mala ab oculis meis

11 quare non in vulva mortuus sum egressus ex utero non statim perii

12 quare exceptus genibus cur lactatus uberibus

13 nunc enim dormiens silerem et somno meo requiescerem

14 cum regibus et consulibus terrae qui aedificant sibi solitudines

15 aut cum principibus qui possident aurum et replent domos suas argento

16 aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem

17 ibi impii cessaverunt a tumultu et ibi requieverunt fessi robore

18 et quondam vincti pariter sine molestia non audierunt vocem exactoris

19 parvus et magnus ibi sunt et servus liber a domino suo

20 quare data est misero lux et vita his qui in amaritudine animae sunt

21 qui expectant mortem et non venit quasi effodientes thesaurum

22 gaudentque vehementer cum invenerint sepulchrum

23 viro cuius abscondita est via et circumdedit eum Deus tenebris

24 antequam comedam suspiro et quasi inundantes aquae sic rugitus meus

25 quia timor quem timebam evenit mihi et quod verebar accidit

26 nonne dissimulavi nonne silui nonne quievi et venit super me indignatio