1 Achar (other) this Ayawab (Job) pathach (opened) his pah (mouth), and qalal (cursed) the yawam (day) of his birth.
2 Then Ayawab (Job) inah (answer / respond) and amar (said):
3 “Let the yawam (day) abad (destroy / perish) in which I was yalad (birth / begot), the layal (night) which amar (said), ‘There is a boy harah (conceived).’
4 Let that yawam (day) be chashak (darkness). Don't let Alawah () from mail (top/above) darash (seek) for it, neither let the naharah (light) yapai (shine) on it.
5 Let chashak (darkness) and the shadow of tzalamawath (death) claim it for their own. Let a inanah (cloud) shakan (place) on it. Let all that makes black the yawam (day) baith (terrify) it.
6 As for that layal (night), let thick apal (darkness) laqach (take / seize) on it. Let it not rejoice among the yamay (days) of the shanah (year). Bawaa (bring) it not come into the masapar (number) of the yarachayam (months).
7 Behold, let that layal (night) be barren. Let no rananah (joyful) voice bawaa (bring) therein.
8 Let them naqab (curse) it who arar (curse) the yawam (day), who are ithayad (ready) to rouse up lawayathan (leviathan).
9 Let the kawakabay (stars) of its nashap (twilight) be chashak (darkness). Let it qawah (gather/wait) for awar (light), but raah (see / saw) none, neither let it see the ipaipay (eyelids) of the shachar (morning),
10 Because it didn't sagar (shut) up the dalathay (doors) of my mother's batan (womb), nor did it sathar (hide) imal (trouble) from my iyan (eye).
11 “Why didn't I mawath (death) from the racham (show mercy / love)? Why didn't I gawai (give) up the spirit when my batan (mother) yatzaa (go out / come out) me?
12 Why did the barakayam (knees) receive me? Or why the shad (breast), that I should yanaq (nurse)?
13 For now should I have shakab (lain) down and been shaqat (quiet). I should have yashan (slept), then I would have been at nawach (rest),
14 With malakayam (kings) and yaitzay (counselors) of the aratz (Earth/land), who banah (build) up charabah (waste) places for themselves;
15 Or with sharayam (princes) who had zahab (gold), who malaa (filled) their bayath (house) with kasap (silver):
16 Or as a taman (hidden) napal (fall / be cast down) birth I had not been, as ilalayam (infants) who never raah (see / saw) awar (light).
17 There the rashai (wicked) chadal (cease) from ragaz (troubling). There the yagayai (weary) are at nawach (rest).
18 There the asayarayam (prisoners) are at shaan (ease) yachad (together). They don't shamai (hearken / hear) the qawal (sound / voice) of the nagash (taskmaster).
19 The qatan (small / young / least) and the gadawal (very great/important/mighty) are there. The ibad (servant) is chapashay (free) from his adawan (master / lord).
20 “Why is awar (light) nathan (give) to him who is in imal (misery), chay (life) to the mar (bitter) in napash (soul),
21 Who chakah (long) for mawath (death), but it doesn't come; and chapar (dig) for it more than for matamawan (hidden) treasures,
22 Who shamach (rejoice) gayal (exceedingly), and are shawash (glad), when they can matzaa (find) the qabar (grave / tomb / sepulcher)?
23 Why is light given to a gabar (man) whose darak (way) is sathar (hidden), whom Alawah () has sakak (hedged) in?
24 For my anachah (sighing) bawaa (bring) panayam (face) I lacham (eat). My groanings are nathak (poured) out like mayam (Waters).
25 For the thing which I pachad (fear / dread) athah (you (masc)) on me, That which I am yagar (afraid) of bawaa (bring) to me.
26 I am not at ease, neither am I shaqat (quiet), neither have I shaqat (rest); but ragaz (trouble) bawaa (bring).”