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3:1  After this opened Iyov his mouth, and cursed his yom.
3:2  And Iyov spoke, and said,
3:3  Let the yom perish wherein I was born, and halailah in which it was said, There is a gever born.
3:4  Let that yom be choshech; let not Elohim regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
3:5  Let choshech and the tzalmavet (shadow of death) claim it; let an anan dwell upon it; let the blackness of the yom terrify it.
3:6  As for that lailah, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the yamim of the shanah, let it not come into the number of the months.
3:7  Hinei, let that lailah be barren; let no joyful shout come therein.
3:8  Let them curse it that curse the yam, who are ready to rouse Leviathan.
3:9  Let the kokhavim of the dawn thereof be dark; let it look for ohr, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the shachar,
3:10  Because it shut not up the dalatot of my mother’s womb, nor hid amal (tzoros) from mine eyes.
3:11  Why did I not come to mot at birth? Why did I not perish when I came out of the beten (belly, womb)?
3:12  Madua (why) were there birkayim to receive me? Or why the shadayim that from them I should nurse?
3:13  For atah (now) I would be lying still and quiet, have slept and been at rest,
3:14  With melachim and yo’atzim of ha’aretz, which build ruins for themselves;
3:15  Or with sarim (princes) that had zahav, who filled their batim (houses) with kesef;
3:16  Or as a hidden stillborn—I had not been!—as olelim which never saw ohr.
3:17  There the resha’im cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
3:18  There the asirim (prisoners, captives) rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
3:19  The katon and gadol are there; and the eved is free from his adon.
3:20  Why is ohr given to him that is in misery, and chayyim unto the bitter in nefesh;
3:21  Which long for mavet, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
3:22  Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the kever?
3:23  Why is ohr given to a gever whose derech is hidden, and whom Elohim hath hedged in?
3:24  For my sighing cometh instead of lechem, and my groanings are poured out like the mayim.
3:25  For the pachad (terror) which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I dreaded is come unto me.
3:26  I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; and rogez (tzoros, turmoil) came.