ECB(i)
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IYOB SPEAKS
After this Iyob opens his mouth and abases his day; 2 and Iyob answers and says, 3 Destroy the day I was birthed; and the night that says, A mighty child is conceived; 4 O that that day be darkness: that Elohah neither require it from above, nor the light shine on it; 5 that darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; that a cloudiness tabernacle on it; that the eclipses of the day frighten it; 6 as for that night, O that darkness take it; that it not rejoice to the days of the year; that it not come into the number of the moons. 7 Behold, O that that night be sterile, that no shout come therein; 8 that they curse, who curse the day who are ready to waken a leviathan; 9 O that the stars of the evening breeze darken; that it await light, but have none; that it not see the eyelids of the dawn; 10 because it neither shut the doors of my belly, nor hide toil from my eyes. 11 Why died I not from the womb? - expire when I came from the belly? 12 Why did the knees anticipate me? Or why the breasts I suck? 13 For now I lie down and rest; had I slept, then had I been at rest, 14 with sovereigns and counsellors of the earth, who build parched areas for themselves; 15 or with governors who have gold - who fill their houses with silver; 16 or I had not been as a hidden miscarriage - as infants who never see light. 17 There the wicked cease from commotion; and there the wearied of force rest; 18 there the bound relax together; they hear not the voice of the exactor; 19 the small and great are there; and the servant is liberated from his adoni. 20 Why gives he light to him in misery and life to the bitter soul; 21 who await death, and so be it not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 who cheer and twirl and rejoice, when they can find the tomb? 23 - to the mighty whose way is hid whom Elohah hedges in? 24 For my sighing comes at the face of my bread and my roarings pour as the waters. 25 For the dread I dreaded comes on me and what I feared comes to me. 26 I neither serenified, nor had I rest, nor rested I; yet commotion came.
IYOB SPEAKS
After this Iyob opens his mouth and abases his day; 2 and Iyob answers and says, 3 Destroy the day I was birthed; and the night that says, A mighty child is conceived; 4 O that that day be darkness: that Elohah neither require it from above, nor the light shine on it; 5 that darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; that a cloudiness tabernacle on it; that the eclipses of the day frighten it; 6 as for that night, O that darkness take it; that it not rejoice to the days of the year; that it not come into the number of the moons. 7 Behold, O that that night be sterile, that no shout come therein; 8 that they curse, who curse the day who are ready to waken a leviathan; 9 O that the stars of the evening breeze darken; that it await light, but have none; that it not see the eyelids of the dawn; 10 because it neither shut the doors of my belly, nor hide toil from my eyes. 11 Why died I not from the womb? - expire when I came from the belly? 12 Why did the knees anticipate me? Or why the breasts I suck? 13 For now I lie down and rest; had I slept, then had I been at rest, 14 with sovereigns and counsellors of the earth, who build parched areas for themselves; 15 or with governors who have gold - who fill their houses with silver; 16 or I had not been as a hidden miscarriage - as infants who never see light. 17 There the wicked cease from commotion; and there the wearied of force rest; 18 there the bound relax together; they hear not the voice of the exactor; 19 the small and great are there; and the servant is liberated from his adoni. 20 Why gives he light to him in misery and life to the bitter soul; 21 who await death, and so be it not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 who cheer and twirl and rejoice, when they can find the tomb? 23 - to the mighty whose way is hid whom Elohah hedges in? 24 For my sighing comes at the face of my bread and my roarings pour as the waters. 25 For the dread I dreaded comes on me and what I feared comes to me. 26 I neither serenified, nor had I rest, nor rested I; yet commotion came.