Job 3 – Studienbibel

1 After310 this opened6605 Job347 his mouth6310, and cursed7043 his day3117. 2 And Job347 spake6030, and said559,¹ 3 Let the day3117 perish6 wherein I was born3205, and the night3915 in which it was said559, There is a man child1397 conceived2029. 4 Let that day3117 be darkness2822; let not God433 regard1875 it from above4605, neither let the light5105 shine3313 upon it. 5 Let darkness2822 and the shadow of death6757 stain1350 it; let a cloud6053 dwell7931 upon it; let the blackness3650 of the day3117 terrify1204 it.²³ 6 As for that night3915, let darkness652 seize3947 upon it; let it not be joined2302 unto the days3117 of the year8141, let it not come935 into the number4557 of the months3391.⁴ 7 Lo, let that night3915 be solitary1565, let no joyful voice7445 come935 therein. 8 Let them curse5344 it that curse779 the day3117, who are ready6264 to raise up5782 their mourning3882.⁵ 9 Let the stars3556 of the twilight5399 thereof be dark2821; let it look6960 for light216, but have none; neither let it see7200 the dawning6079 of the day7837:⁶ 10 Because it shut not up5462 the doors1817 of my mother's womb990, nor hid5641 sorrow5999 from mine eyes5869.

11 Why died4191 I not from the womb7358? why did I not give up the ghost1478 when I came out3318 of the belly990? 12 Why did the knees1290 prevent6923 me? or why the breasts7699 that I should suck3243? 13 For now should I have lain still7901 and been quiet8252, I should have slept3462: then had I been at rest5117, 14 With kings4428 and counsellors3289 of the earth776, which built1129 desolate places2723 for themselves; 15 Or with princes8269 that had gold2091, who filled4390 their houses1004 with silver3701: 16 Or as an hidden2934 untimely birth5309 I had not been; as infants5768 which never saw7200 light216. 17 There the wicked7563 cease2308 from troubling7267; and there the weary3019 3581 be at rest5117.⁷ 18 There the prisoners615 rest7599 together3162; they hear8085 not the voice6963 of the oppressor5065. 19 The small6996 and great1419 are there; and the servant5650 is free2670 from his master113.

20 Wherefore is light216 given5414 to him that is in misery6001, and life2416 unto the bitter4751 in soul5315; 21 Which long2442 for death4194, but it cometh not; and dig2658 for it more than for hid treasures4301;⁸ 22 Which rejoice8056 exceedingly1524, and are glad7797, when they can find4672 the grave6913? 23 Why is light given to a man1397 whose way1870 is hid5641, and whom God433 hath hedged in5526? 24 For my sighing585 cometh935 before6440 I eat3899, and my roarings7581 are poured out5413 like the waters4325.⁹ 25 For the thing which I greatly6343 feared6342 is come857 upon me, and that which I was afraid3025 of is come935 unto me.¹⁰ 26 I was not in safety7951, neither had I rest8252, neither was I quiet5117; yet trouble7267 came935.