Job 3 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Post hæc aperuit Job os suum, et maledixit diei suo,
1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
2 et locutus est:
2 Job answered:
3 [Pereat dies in qua natus sum, et nox in qua dictum est: Conceptus est homo.
3 “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
4 Dies ille vertatur in tenebras: non requirat eum Deus desuper, et non illustretur lumine.
4 Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
5 Obscurent eum tenebræ et umbra mortis; occupet eum caligo, et involvatur amaritudine.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
6 Noctem illam tenebrosus turbo possideat; non computetur in diebus anni, nec numeretur in mensibus.
6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Sit nox illa solitaria, nec laude digna.
7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Maledicant ei qui maledicunt diei, qui parati sunt suscitare Leviathan.
8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Obtenebrentur stellæ caligine ejus; expectet lucem, et non videat, nec ortum surgentis auroræ.
9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
10 Quia non conclusit ostia ventris qui portavit me, nec abstulit mala ab oculis meis.
10 because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11 Quare non in vulva mortuus sum? egressus ex utero non statim perii?
11 “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12 Quare exceptus genibus? cur lactatus uberibus?
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
13 Nunc enim dormiens silerem, et somno meo requiescerem
13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
14 cum regibus et consulibus terræ, qui ædificant sibi solitudines;
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15 aut cum principibus qui possident aurum, et replent domos suas argento;
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16 aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem, vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem.
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
17 Ibi impii cessaverunt a tumultu, et ibi requieverunt fessi robore.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
18 Et quondam vincti pariter sine molestia, non audierunt vocem exactoris.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 Parvus et magnus ibi sunt, et servus liber a domino suo.
19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
20 Quare misero data est lux, et vita his qui in amaritudine animæ sunt:
20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
21 qui expectant mortem, et non venit, quasi effodientes thesaurum;
21 who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22 gaudentque vehementer cum invenerint sepulchrum?
22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 viro cujus abscondita est via et circumdedit eum Deus tenebris?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24 Antequam comedam, suspiro; et tamquam inundantes aquæ, sic rugitus meus:
24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
25 quia timor quem timebam evenit mihi, et quod verebar accidit.
25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26 Nonne dissimulavi? nonne silui? nonne quievi? et venit super me indignatio.]
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 20:14–15; Psalm 106:33; Psalm 39:2–3; Job 2:9–10; Job 3:3
- 3 Jeremiah 20:14–18; Jeremiah 15:10; Job 10:18–19
- 4 Matthew 27:45; Amos 5:18; Revelation 16:10; Deuteronomy 11:12; Joel 2:2
- 5 Job 10:21–22; Job 28:3; Jeremiah 2:6; Psalm 23:4; Psalm 107:14
- 7 Isaiah 13:20–22; Jeremiah 7:34; Revelation 18:22–23; Isaiah 24:8
- 8 Job 41:1; Job 41:10; 2 Chronicles 35:25; Jeremiah 9:17–18; Job 41:25
- 9 Job 41:18; Jeremiah 8:15; Jeremiah 13:16; Job 30:26
- 10 Ecclesiastes 6:3–5; Genesis 20:18; Jeremiah 20:17; 1 Samuel 1:5; Genesis 29:31
- 11 Isaiah 46:3; Job 10:18–19; Hosea 9:14; Jeremiah 15:10; Psalm 139:13–16
- 12 Genesis 30:3; Isaiah 66:12; Genesis 50:23; Ezekiel 16:4–5
- 13 Ecclesiastes 9:10; Job 14:10–12; Job 21:13; Job 7:21; Ecclesiastes 6:3–5
- 14 Job 15:28; Psalm 89:48; Isaiah 14:10–16; Psalm 49:14; Psalm 49:6–10
- 15 1 Kings 10:27; Job 22:25; Zephaniah 1:18; Numbers 22:18; Job 27:16–17
- 16 Psalm 58:8; Ecclesiastes 6:3; 1 Corinthians 15:8
- 17 Revelation 14:13; Job 17:16; Isaiah 57:1–2; Job 14:13; Hebrews 4:11
- 18 Job 39:7; Exodus 5:15–19; Judges 4:3; Exodus 5:6–8; Isaiah 14:3–4
- 19 Ecclesiastes 8:8; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Job 30:23; Psalm 49:2; Luke 16:22–23
- 20 Jeremiah 20:18; Job 7:15–16; 1 Samuel 1:10; Proverbs 31:6; Job 6:9
- 21 Revelation 9:6; Proverbs 2:4; Numbers 11:15; Jonah 4:8; 1 Kings 19:4
- 23 Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7; Isaiah 40:27; Job 12:14; Lamentations 3:9
- 24 Psalm 102:9; Psalm 42:3–4; Psalm 80:5; Psalm 38:8; Job 33:20
- 25 Job 1:5; Job 30:15; Job 31:23
- 26 Job 7:14; Job 27:9; Psalm 143:11
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