Font Size
Jobsbók 3
Icelandic Bible
Jobsbók 3
Icelandic Bible
3 Loks lauk Job upp munni sínum og bölvaði fæðingardegi sínum.
2 Hann tók til máls og sagði:
3 Farist sá dagur, sem ég fæddist á, og nóttin, sem sagði: Sveinbarn er getið!
4 Sá dagur verði að myrkri, Guð á hæðum spyrji ekki eftir honum, engin dagsbirta ljómi yfir honum.
5 Myrkur og niðdimma heimti hann aftur, skýflókar leggist um hann, dagmyrkvar skelfi hann.
6 Sú nótt _ myrkrið hremmi hana, hún gleðji sig eigi meðal ársins daga, hún komi eigi í tölu mánaðanna.
7 Sjá, sú nótt verði ófrjó, ekkert fagnaðaróp heyrist á henni.
8 Þeir sem bölva deginum, formæli henni, _ þeir sem leiknir eru í að egna Levjatan.
9 Myrkvist stjörnur aftureldingar hennar, vænti hún ljóss, en það komi ekki, og brágeisla morgunroðans fái hún aldrei litið,
10 af því að hún lokaði eigi fyrir mér dyrum móðurlífsins og byrgði ei ógæfuna fyrir augum mínum.
11 Hví dó ég ekki í móðurkviði, _ andaðist jafnskjótt og ég var kominn af móðurlífi?
12 Hvers vegna tóku kné á móti mér og hví voru brjóst til handa mér að sjúga?
13 Því þá lægi ég nú og hvíldist, væri sofnaður og hefði frið
14 hjá konungum og ráðherrum jarðarinnar, þeim er reistu sér hallir úr rústum,
15 eða hjá höfðingjum, sem áttu gull, þeim er fylltu hús sín silfri.
16 Eða ég væri ekki til eins og falinn ótímaburður, eins og börn, sem aldrei hafa séð ljósið.
17 Í gröfinni hætta hinir óguðlegu hávaðanum, og þar hvílast hinir örmagna.
18 Bandingjarnir hafa þar allir ró, heyra þar eigi köll verkstjórans.
19 Smár og stór eru þar jafnir, og þrællinn er þar laus við húsbónda sinn.
20 Hví gefur Guð ljós hinum þjáðu og líf hinum sorgbitnu?
21 þeim sem þrá dauðann, en hann kemur ekki, sem grafa eftir honum ákafara en eftir fólgnum fjársjóðum,
22 þeim sem mundu gleðjast svo, að þeir réðu sér ekki fyrir kæti, fagna, ef þeir fyndu gröfina;
23 _ þeim manni, sem enga götu sér og Guð hefir girt inni?
24 Því að andvörp eru orðin mitt daglegt brauð, og kvein mitt úthellist sem vatn.
25 Því að óttaðist ég eitthvað, þá hitti það mig, og það sem ég hræddist, kom yfir mig.
26 Ég mátti eigi næðis njóta, eigi friðar, eigi hvíldar, þá kom ný mæða.
Job 3
New International Version
Job 3
New International Version
Job Speaks
3 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.(A) 2 He said:
3 “May the day of my birth perish,
and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’(B)
4 That day—may it turn to darkness;
may God above not care about it;
may no light shine on it.
5 May gloom and utter darkness(C) claim it once more;
may a cloud settle over it;
may blackness overwhelm it.
6 That night—may thick darkness(D) seize it;
may it not be included among the days of the year
nor be entered in any of the months.
7 May that night be barren;
may no shout of joy(E) be heard in it.
8 May those who curse days[a] curse that day,(F)
those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.(G)
9 May its morning stars become dark;
may it wait for daylight in vain
and not see the first rays of dawn,(H)
10 for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me
to hide trouble from my eyes.
11 “Why did I not perish at birth,
and die as I came from the womb?(I)
12 Why were there knees to receive me(J)
and breasts that I might be nursed?
13 For now I would be lying down(K) in peace;
I would be asleep and at rest(L)
14 with kings and rulers of the earth,(M)
who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,(N)
15 with princes(O) who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.(P)
16 Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,(Q)
like an infant who never saw the light of day?(R)
17 There the wicked cease from turmoil,(S)
and there the weary are at rest.(T)
18 Captives(U) also enjoy their ease;
they no longer hear the slave driver’s(V) shout.(W)
19 The small and the great are there,(X)
and the slaves are freed from their owners.
20 “Why is light given to those in misery,
and life to the bitter of soul,(Y)
21 to those who long for death that does not come,(Z)
who search for it more than for hidden treasure,(AA)
22 who are filled with gladness
and rejoice when they reach the grave?(AB)
23 Why is life given to a man
whose way is hidden,(AC)
whom God has hedged in?(AD)
24 For sighing(AE) has become my daily food;(AF)
my groans(AG) pour out like water.(AH)
25 What I feared has come upon me;
what I dreaded(AI) has happened to me.(AJ)
26 I have no peace,(AK) no quietness;
I have no rest,(AL) but only turmoil.”(AM)
Footnotes
- Job 3:8 Or curse the sea
Job 3
King James Version
Job 3
King James Version
3 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 And Job spake, and said,
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Icelandic Bible (ICELAND)
by Icelandic Bible Society
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.