Jó 3

1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. 2 Job answered:

3 "Let the day perish in which I was born,

the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

4 Let that day be darkness.

Don’t let God from above seek for it,

neither let the light shine on it.

5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own.

Let a cloud dwell on it.

Let all that makes the day black terrify it.

6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it.

Let it not rejoice among the days of the year.

Let it not come into the number of the months.

7 Behold, let that night be barren.

Let no joyful voice come therein.

8 Let them curse it who curse the day,

who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark.

Let it look for light, but have none,

neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

10 because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,

nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

11 "Why didn’t I die from the womb?

Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

12 Why did the knees receive me?

Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet.

I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

14 with kings and counselors of the earth,

who built up waste places for themselves;

15 or with princes who had gold,

who filled their houses with silver;

16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,

as infants who never saw light.

17 There the wicked cease from troubling.

There the weary are at rest.

18 There the prisoners are at ease together.

They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

19 The small and the great are there.

The servant is free from his master.

20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery,

life to the bitter in soul,

21 who long for death, but it doesn’t come;

and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

22 who rejoice exceedingly,

and are glad, when they can find the grave?

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,

whom God has hedged in?

24 For my sighing comes before I eat.

My groanings are poured out like water.

25 For the thing which I fear comes on me,

that which I am afraid of comes to me.

26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest;

but trouble comes."

Ka Kangaia e Hopa te Rā i Whānau mai ia

1 I muri i tēnei, ka puaki te māngai o Hopa, ā, ka kangā e ia tōna rā. 2 Nā, ka oho a Hopa, ka mea:

3 "Kia ngaro te rā i whānau ai ahau,

te pō, i kōrerotia ai,

‘He tamāroa kei roto i te kōpū.’

4 Waiho taua rā mō te pōuri;

kaua e tirohia iho e te Atua i runga;

kaua hoki e whitingia e te mārama.

5 Kia poke ia i te pōuri, i te ātārangi hoki o te mate;

kia tauria iho e te kapua;

kia whakawehia anō hoki e te whakapōuritanga o te rā.

6 Nā, ko taua pō – kia mau pū i te pōuri kerekere;

kei honoa ki ngā rā o te tau;

kei huihuia atu ina taua ngā marama.

7 Nanā, kia mokemoke taua pō,

kaua te reo koa e uru ki roto.

8 Kia kangā hoki e te hunga kanga i te rā,

e te hunga mōhio ki te whakaara rewiatana.

9 Kia pōuri ngā whetū o tōna kākarauritanga;

kia tatari ki te mārama, ā, kāhore noa iho;

kei kite hoki i te tākiritanga ata –

10 mōna kīhai i tūtaki i ngā tatau o te kōpū o tōku whaea,

kīhai i huna i te māuiui kei kitea e ahau.

11 "He aha ahau tē mate ai i te kōpū?

He aha tē hemo ai i tōku putanga mai i te kōpū?

12 He aha i rite wawe ai ngā turi mōku,

me ngā ū hei ngote māku?

13 Me i pēnā, kua āta takoto ahau, te ai he whakaohooho;

moe ana ahau; kātahi ahau ka whai okiokinga,

14 i roto i ngā kīngi, i ngā kaiwhakatakoto whakaaro o te whenua

i hanga nei i ngā wāhi mokemoke mō rātou,

15 i roto rānei i ngā rangatira whai kōura,

ō rātou nei whare kī tonu i te hiriwa.

16 Kua kāhore noa iho rānei, kua pērā me te materoto e ngaro nei

me ngā kōhungahunga kāhore nei e kite i te mārama.

17 Mutu ake i reira te whakararuraru a te hunga kino;

okioki ana i reira, te hunga kua māuiui ngā uaua.

18 Āta noho ana ngā herehere i reira

tē rongo i te reo o te kaitūkino.

19 Kei reira te iti, te rahi,

kāhore hoki he rangatira o te pononga.

20 "He aha te mārama i hōmai ai ki te tangata kei roto nei i te mate,

te ora ki te tangata kua kawa te wairua?

21 E kōingo nei ki te mate, heoi kāhore noa iho;

e keri ana kia taea ia, nui atu i te keri i ngā taonga huna.

22 Hari pū rātou, koa ana,

ina kitea te urupā.

23 He aha anō te mārama i hōmai ai ki te tangata

kua huna nei tōna ara,

kua oti nei te tūtakitaki mai e te Atua?

24 Kīanō hoki ahau i kai, kua tae mai tāku mapu;

ānō he wai ōku hāmama e ringihia ana.

25 Nō te mea kua tae mai ki ahau te mea whakawehi e wehi nei ahau;

ko tāku e pāwera nei kua pā ki ahau.

26 Kāhore ōku hūmārie, kāhore ōku āta noho,

ehara i te mea e okioki ana; nā, kua puta te raruraru."