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3.4 :Neither let the light shine upon it.
 * Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;
 * Let a cloud dwell upon it;
 * Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
 * As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it;
 * Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
 * Let it not come into the number of the months.
 * Lo, let that night be desolate;
 * Let no joyful voice come therein.
 * Let them curse it that curse the day,
 * Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
 * Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark;
 * Let it look for light, but have none;
 * Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning;
 * Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb,
 * Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.


 * Why died I not from the womb?
 * Why did I not perish at birth?
 * Why did the knees receive me?
 * And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
 * For now should I have lain still and been quiet;
 * I should have slept; then had I been at rest—
 * With kings and counsellors of the earth,
 * Who built up waste places for themselves;
 * Or with princes that had gold,
 * Who filled their houses with silver;
 * Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been;
 * As infants that never saw light.
 * There the wicked cease from troubling;
 * And there the weary are at rest.
 * There the prisoners are at ease together;
 * They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
 * The small and great are there alike; And the servant is free from his master.


 * Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery,
 * And life unto the bitter in soul—
 * Who long for death, but it cometh not;
 * And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
 * Who rejoice unto exultation,
 * And are glad, when they can find the grave?—
 * To a man whose way is hid,
 * And whom God hath hedged in?
 * For my sighing cometh instead of my food,
 * And my roarings are poured out like water.
 * For the thing which I did fear is come upon me,
 * And that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.
 * I was not at ease, neither was I quiet,
 * Neither had I rest; but trouble came.

Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:


 * If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary?
 * But who can withhold himself from speaking?
 * Behold, thou hast instructed many,
 * And thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
 * Thy words have upholden him that was falling,
 * And thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
 * But now it is come upon thee, and thou art weary;