15:10 I said, 1
“Oh, mother, how I regret 2 that you ever gave birth to me!
I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. 3
I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone.
Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.” 4
3:3 “Let the day on which 5 I was born 6 perish,
and the night that said, 7
‘A man 8 has been conceived!’ 9
3:4 That day 10 – let it be darkness; 11
let not God on high regard 12 it,
nor let light shine 13 on it!
3:5 Let darkness and the deepest
shadow 14 claim it; 15
let a cloud settle on it;
let whatever blackens the day 16 terrify it!
3:6 That night – let darkness seize 17 it;
let it not be included 18 among the days of the year;
let it not enter among the number of the months! 19
3:7 Indeed, 20 let that night be barren; 21
let no shout of joy 22 penetrate 23 it!
3:8 Let those who curse the day 24 curse it 25 –
those who are prepared to rouse 26 Leviathan. 27
3:9 Let its morning stars 28 be darkened;
let it wait 29 for daylight but find none, 30
nor let it see the first rays 31 of dawn,
3:10 because it 32 did not shut the doors 33 of my mother’s womb on me, 34
nor did it hide trouble 35 from my eyes!
3:11 “Why did I not 37 die 38 at birth, 39
and why did I not expire
as 40 I came out of the womb?
3:12 Why did the knees welcome me, 41
and why were there 42 two breasts 43
that I might nurse at them? 44
3:13 For now 45 I would be lying down
and 46 would be quiet, 47
I would be asleep and then at peace 48
3:14 with kings and counselors of the earth
who built for themselves places now desolate, 49
3:15 or with princes who possessed gold, 50
who filled their palaces 51 with silver.
3:16 Or why 52 was 53 I not buried 54
like a stillborn infant, 55
like infants 56 who have never seen the light? 57