See in Reader
108 lines
2.7 KiB
Plaintext
108 lines
2.7 KiB
Plaintext
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\c 3
|
|
\p
|
|
\v 1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 2 He said,
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 3 "May the day on which I was born perish,
|
|
\q the night that said, 'A boy has been conceived.'
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 4 May that day be dark;
|
|
\q may not God from above call it to mind,
|
|
\q neither may the sun shine on it.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 5 May darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own.
|
|
\q May a cloud live over it;
|
|
\q may everything that makes the day black truly terrify it.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 6 As for that night, may thick darkness seize it.
|
|
\q May it not rejoice among the days of the year;
|
|
\q may it not come into the number of the months.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 7 See, may that night be barren;
|
|
\q may no joyful voice come into it.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 8 May they curse that day,
|
|
\q those who know how to wake up Leviathan.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 9 May the stars of that day's dawn be dark.
|
|
\q May that day look for light, but find none;
|
|
\q neither may it see the eyelids of the dawn,
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 10 because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb,
|
|
\q and because it did not hide trouble from my eyes.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 11 Why did I not die when I came out from the womb?
|
|
\q Why did I not give up my spirit when my mother bore me?
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 12 Why did her knees welcome me?
|
|
\q Why did her breasts receive me so that I should suck?
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 13 For now I would have been lying down quietly.
|
|
\q I would have slept and been at rest
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 14 with kings and counselors of the earth,
|
|
\q who built up tombs for themselves that are now in ruins.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 15 Or I would have been lying with princes who once had gold,
|
|
\q who had filled their houses with silver.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 16 Or perhaps I would have been stillborn,
|
|
\q like infants that never see the light.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 17 There the wicked cease from trouble;
|
|
\q there the weary are at rest.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
|
|
\q they do not hear the voice of the slave driver.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 19 Both small and great people are there;
|
|
\q the servant is free from his master there.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 20 Why is light given to him who is in misery?
|
|
\q Why is life given to the one who is bitter in soul,
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 21 to one who longs for death without it coming;
|
|
\q to one who digs for death more than for hidden treasure?
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 22 Why is light given to one who rejoices very much
|
|
\q and is glad when he finds the grave?
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
|
|
\q a man whom God has hedged in?
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 24 For my sighing happens instead of eating;
|
|
\q my groaning is poured out like water.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 25 For the thing that I feared has come on me;
|
|
\q what I was afraid of has come to me.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 26 I am not at ease, I am not quiet, and I have no rest;
|
|
\q trouble comes instead."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|