| 3:1 | Job Deplores His BirthJob Regrets His Birth After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. |
| 3:2 | And Job spoke, and said: |
| 3:3 | May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said, A male child is conceived.' |
| 3:4 | May that day be darkness; May God above not seek it, Nor the light shine upon it. |
| 3:5 | May darkness and the shadow of death claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it. |
| 3:6 | As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year, May it not come into the number of the months. |
| 3:7 | Oh, may that night be barren! May no joyful shout come into it! |
| 3:8 | May those curse it who curse the day, Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan. |
| 3:9 | May the stars of its morning be dark; May it look for light, but have none, And not see the dawning of the day; |
| 3:10 | Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hide sorrow from my eyes. |
| 3:11 | Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not perish when I came from the womb? |
| 3:12 | Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse? |
| 3:13 | For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest |
| 3:14 | With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built ruins for themselves, |
| 3:15 | Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver; |
| 3:16 | Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like infants who never saw light? |
| 3:17 | There the wicked cease from troubling, And there the weary are at rest. |
| 3:18 | There the prisoners rest together; They do not hear the voice of the oppressor. |
| 3:19 | The small and great are there, And the servant is free from his master. |
| 3:20 | Why is light given to him who is in misery, And life to the bitter of soul, |
| 3:21 | Who long for death, but it does not come, And search for it more than hidden treasures; |
| 3:22 | Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad when they can find the grave? |
| 3:23 | Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in? |
| 3:24 | For my sighing comes before I eat, And my groanings pour out like water. |
| 3:25 | For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, And what I dreaded has happened to me. |
| 3:26 | I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for trouble comes." |