1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

2 And Job answered and said,

3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.

4 That day-let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:

5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.

6 That night-let gloom seize upon 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 sound come therein;

8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;

9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

10 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

11 Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -come forth from the belly and expire?

12 Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate 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 that have not seen the light.

17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.

18 The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

19 The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.

20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

21 Who long for death, and it {cometh} not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

22 Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? -

23 To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?

24 For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

25 For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.

26 I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.

1 I muri i tenei ka puaki te mangai o Hopa, a ka kanga e ia tona ra.

2 Na ka oho a Hopa, ka mea,

3 Kia ngaro te ra i whanau ai ahau, te po i korerotia ai, He tamaroa kei roto i te kopu.

4 Waiho taua ra mo te pouri; kaua e tirohia iho e te Atua i runga; kaua hoki e whitingia e te marama.

5 Kia poke ia i te pouri, i te atarangi hoki o te mate; kia tauria iho e te kapua; kia whakawehia ano hoki e te whakapouritanga o te ra.

6 Na ko taua po, kia mau pu i te pouri kerekere: kei honoa ki nga ra o te tau; kei huihuia atu ina taua nga marama.

7 Nana, kia mokemoke taua po, kaua te reo koa e uru ki roto.

8 Kia kanga hoki e te hunga kanga i te ra, e te hunga mohio ki te whakaara rewiatana.

9 Kia pouri nga whetu o tona kakarauritanga; kia tatari ki te marama, a kahore noa iho; kei kite hoki i te takiritanga ata.

10 Mona kihai i tutaki i nga tatau o te kopu o toku whaea, kihai i huna i te mauiui kei kitea e ahau.

11 He aha ahau te mate ai i te kopu? He aha te hemo ai i toku putanga mai i te kopu?

12 He aha i rite wawe ai nga turi moku, me nga u hei ngote maku?

13 Me i pena, kua ata takoto ahau, te ai he whakaohooho, moe ana ahau: katahi ahau ka whai okiokinga,

14 I roto i nga kingi, i nga kaiwhakatakoto whakaaro o te whenua i hanga nei i nga wahi mokemoke mo ratou,

15 I roto ranei i nga rangatira whai koura, o ratou nei whare ki tonu i te hiriwa:

16 Kua kahore noa iho ranei, kua pera me te materoto e ngaro nei, me nga kohungahunga kahore nei e kite i te marama.

17 Mutu ake i reira te whakararuraru a te hunga kino; okioki ana i reira te hunga kua mauiui nga uaua.

18 Ata noho ana nga herehere i reira, te rongo i te reo o te kaitukino.

19 Kei reira te iti, te rahi, kahore hoki he rangatira o te pononga.

20 He aha te marama i homai ai ki te tangata kei roto nei i te mate? te ora ki te tangata kua kawa te wairua?

21 E koingo nei ki te mate, heoi kahore noa iho; e keri ana kia taea ia, nui atu i te keri i nga taonga huna.

22 Hari pu ratou, koa ana, ina kitea te urupa.

23 He aha ano te marama i homai ai ki te tangata kua huna nei tona ara, kua oti nei te tutakitaki mai e te Atua?

24 Kiano hoki ahau i kai, kua tae mai taku mapu: ano he wai oku hamama e ringihia ana.

25 No te mea kua tae mai ki ahau te mea whakawehi e wehi nei ahau; ko taku e pawera nei kua pa ki ahau.

26 Kahore oku humarie, kahore oku ata noho, ehara i te mea e okioki ana; na kua puta te raruraru.