nsb - Job:3

nsb@Job:3:1 @ JOB OPENED HIS MOUTH and cursed the day of his birth.

nsb@Job:3:2 @ He said:

nsb@Job:3:3 @ »May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said: A boy is born!«

nsb@Job:3:4 @ »Let that day turn to darkness. May God above not care about it. Let no light shine upon it.

nsb@Job:3:5 @ »Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it once more. May a cloud settle over it and may blackness overwhelm its light.

nsb@Job:3:6 @ »About that night, may thick darkness seize it. May it not be included among the days of the year nor be entered in any of the months.

nsb@Job:3:7 @ »Let the night be barren and may no shout of joy be heard in it.

nsb@Job:3:8 @ »May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to lift up Leviathan.

nsb@Job:3:9 @ »Let its morning stars become dark and cause it to wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn,

nsb@Job:3:10 @ for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.

nsb@Job:3:11 @ »Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?

nsb@Job:3:12 @ »Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?

nsb@Job:3:13 @ »For now I would be lying down in peace. I would be asleep and at rest.

nsb@Job:3:14 @ »I would be with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins.

nsb@Job:3:15 @ »I would be with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

nsb@Job:3:16 @ »Why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?

nsb@Job:3:17 @ »There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

nsb@Job:3:18 @ »Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave drivers shout.

nsb@Job:3:19 @ »The small and the great are there. The slave is freed from his master.

nsb@Job:3:20 @ »Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in heart?

nsb@Job:3:21 @ »They long for death that does not come. They search for it more than for hidden treasure.

nsb@Job:3:22 @ »They are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave.

nsb@Job:3:23 @ »Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

nsb@Job:3:24 @ »Sighing comes to me instead of food. My groans pour out like water.

nsb@Job:3:25 @ »What I feared has come upon me. What I dreaded has happened to me.

nsb@Job:3:26 @ »I have no peace. I have no quietness. I have no rest. I only have turmoil!«