Eyüp 3

¹Bundan sonra Eyüp ağzını açtı ve kendi gününe lanet etti,

²şöyle diyerek:

³Yok olsun doğduğum o gün ve "İşte bir erkek!" denilen o gece.

⁴Karanlık olsun o gece; yukarıdan Rab onu aramasın, üzerine hiçbir ışık parıltısı gelmesin.

⁵Karanlık ve ölümün gölgesi onu ele geçirsin, üzerine koyu bir bulut çöksün. Lanetlensin o gün

⁶ve o gece; onu karanlık alıp götürsün. Yılın günleri arasına katılmasın, ayların günlerinden sayılmasın.

⁷Aksine acı olsun o gece; içine ne bir sevinç ne de bir coşku girsin.

⁸O güne lanet edenler ona da lanet etsin, o büyük deniz canavarını boyunduruk altına almaya hazır olanlar.

⁹Kararsın o gecenin yıldızları; boşuna ışık beklesin ama ışık gelmesin, yükselen sabah yıldızını hiç görmesin.

¹⁰Çünkü annemin rahminin kapılarını kapamadı; kapatsaydı kederi gözlerimden uzaklaştırırdı.

¹¹Neden rahimde ölmedim? Neden rahimden çıktım da hemen yok olmadım?

¹²Neden dizler benimle karşılaştı? Neden emzirilmek için memeleri emdim?

¹³Çünkü şimdi uyumuş ve sessizce duruyor olurdum; uykuya dalıp huzur bulurdum,

¹⁴kılıçlarıyla gururlanan yeryüzünün kralları ve danışmanlarıyla birlikte;

¹⁵ya da altınları bol olan, evlerini gümüşle dolduran önderlerle birlikte.

¹⁶Ya da neden annemin rahminden çıkan bir düşük gibi, ışığı hiç görmemiş bebekler gibi olmadım?

¹⁷Orada tanrısızlar öfkenin gazabını yakıp tükettiler, orada bedenen bitkin düşenler huzur buldu.

¹⁸Eskiler hep birlikte esenliğe kavuştu, artık vergi memurunun sesini işitmezler.

¹⁹Küçük de büyük de oradadır, efendisinden korkan hizmetkar da oradadır.

²⁰Neden ışık verilir acılık içinde olanlara, yaşam verilir ruhu acı dolu canlara?

²¹Onlar ki ölümü özlerler ama ona ulaşamazlar; onu gizli hazineleri kazar gibi ararlar,

²²ona ulaşırlarsa da sevinçten coşarlar.

²³Ölüm bir adama huzurdur, çünkü Tanrı onun etrafını kuşatıp kapatmıştır.

²⁴Çünkü yemeğimden önce inlemelerim geliyor, korkuyla kuşatılmış olarak ağlıyorum.

²⁵Çünkü kaygılandığım korku başıma geldi, çekindiğim şey benimle karşılaştı.

²⁶Ne barış bulabildim, ne sessiz kalabildim, ne de dinlenebildim; üzerime sadece öfke geldi.

¹ΜΕΤΑ τοῦτο ἤνοιξεν ᾿Ιὼβ τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ καὶ κατηράσατο τὴν ἡμέραν αὐτοῦ

²λέγων·

³ἀπόλοιτο ἡ ἡμέρα, ἐν ᾗ ἐγεννήθην, καὶ ἡ νὺξ ἐκείνη ᾗ εἶπαν· ἰδοὺ ἄρσεν.

⁴ἡ νὺξ ἐκείνη εἴη σκότος, καὶ μὴ ἀναζητήσαι αὐτὴν ὁ Κύριος ἄνωθεν, μηδὲ ἔλθοι εἰς αὐτὴν φέγγος·

⁵ἐκλάβοι δὲ αὐτὴν σκότος καὶ σκιὰ θανάτου, ἐπέλθοι ἐπ᾿ αὐτὴν γνόφος. καταραθείη ἡ ἡμέρα

⁶καὶ ἡ νὺξ ἐκείνη, ἀπενέγκαιτο αὐτὴν σκότος· μὴ εἴη εἰς ἡμέρας ἐνιαυτοῦ, μηδὲ ἀριθμηθείη εἰς ἡμέρας μηνῶν·

⁷ἀλλὰ ἡ νὺξ ἐκείνη εἴη ὀδύνη, καὶ μὴ ἔλθοι ἐπ᾿ αὐτὴν εὐφροσύνη μηδὲ χαρμονή·

⁸ἀλλὰ καταράσαιτο αὐτὴν ὁ καταρώμενος τὴν ἡμέραν ἐκείνην, ὁ μέλλων τὸ μέγα κῆτος χειρώσασθαι.

⁹σκοτωθείη τὰ ἄστρα τῆς νυκτὸς ἐκείνης, ὑπομείναι καὶ εἰς φωτισμὸν μὴ ἔλθοι καὶ μὴ ἴδοι ἑωσφόρον ἀνατέλλοντα,

¹⁰ὅτι οὐ συνέκλεισε πύλας γαστρὸς μητρός μου· ἀπήλλαξε γὰρ ἂν πόνον ἀπὸ ὀφθαλμῶν μου.

¹¹διατί γὰρ ἐν κοιλίᾳ οὐκ ἐτελεύτησα, ἐκ γαστρὸς δὲ ἐξῆλθον καὶ οὐκ εὐθὺς ἀπωλόμην;

¹²ἱνατί δὲ συνήντησάν μοι γόνατα; ἱνατί δὲ μαστοὺς ἐθήλασα;

¹³νῦν ἂν κοιμηθεὶς ἡσύχασα, ὑπνώσας δὲ ἀνεπαυσάμην

¹⁴μετὰ βασιλέων βουλευτῶν γῆς, οἳ ἐγαυριῶντο ἐπὶ ξίφεσιν,

¹⁵ἢ μετὰ ἀρχόντων, ὧν πολὺς ὁ χρυσός, οἳ ἔπλησαν τοὺς οἴκους αὐτῶν ἀργυρίου,

¹⁶ἢ ὥσπερ ἔκτρωμα ἐκπορευόμενον ἐκ μήτρας μητρός, ἢ ὥσπερ νήπιοι, οἳ οὐκ εἶδον φῶς.

¹⁷ἐκεῖ ἀσεβεῖς ἐξέκαυσαν θυμὸν ὀργῆς, ἐκεῖ ἀνεπαύσαντο κατάκοποι τῷ σώματι·

¹⁸ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ οἱ αἰώνιοι οὐκ ἤκουσαν φωνὴν φορολόγου.

¹⁹μικρὸς καὶ μέγας ἐκεῖ ἐστι, καὶ θεράπων δεδοικὼς τὸν κύριον αὐτοῦ·

²⁰ἱνατί γὰρ δέδοται τοῖς ἐν πικρίᾳ φῶς, ζωὴ δὲ ταῖς ἐν ὀδύναις ψυχαῖς;

²¹οἳ ἱμείρονται τοῦ θανάτου καὶ οὐ τυγχάνουσιν ἀνορύσσοντες ὥσπερ θησαυρούς,

²²περιχαρεῖς δὲ ἐγένοντο ἐὰν κατατύχωσι.

²³θάνατος ἀνδρὶ ἀνάπαυμα, συνέκλεισε γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς κατ᾿ αὐτοῦ·

²⁴πρὸ γὰρ τῶν σίτων μου στεναγμός μοι ἥκει, δακρύω δὲ ἐγὼ συνεχόμενος φόβῳ·

²⁵φόβος γάρ, ὅν ἐφρόντισα, ἦλθέ μοι, καὶ ὃν ἐδεδοίκειν, συνήντησέ μοι,

²⁶οὔτε εἰρήνευσα οὔτε ἡσύχασα οὔτε ἀνεπαυσάμην, ἦλθε δέ μοι ὀργή.

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

²saying,

³Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a man-child!

⁴Let that night be darkness, and let not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it.

⁵But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it;

⁶let that day and night be cursed, let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year, neither let it be numbered with the days of the months.

⁷But let that night be pain, and let not mirth come upon it, nor joy.

⁸But let him that curses that day curse it, [even] he that is ready to attack the great whale.

⁹Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain [dark], and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise:

¹⁰because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb, for [so] it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.

¹¹For why died I not in the belly? and [why] did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?

¹²and why did the knees support me? and why did I suck the breasts?

¹³Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,

¹⁴with kings [and] councillors of the earth, who gloried in [their] swords;

¹⁵or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver:

¹⁶or [I should have been] as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb, or as infants who never saw light.

¹⁷There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest.

¹⁸And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor’s voice.

¹⁹The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord.

²⁰For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs?

²¹who desire death, and obtain it not, digging [for it] as [for] treasures;

²²and would be very joyful if they should gain it?

²³Death [is] rest to [such] a man, for God has hedged him in.

²⁴For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror.

²⁵For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.

²⁶I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.