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

¹Kemudian Ayub mulai berbicara dan mengutuki hari kelahirannya, katanya,

²And Job spake, and said,

²"Ya Allah, kutukilah hari kelahiranku, dan malam aku mulai dikandung ibuku!

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

³(3:2)

⁴Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

⁴Ya Allah, jadikanlah hari itu gelap, hapuskan dari ingatan-Mu hingga lenyap; janganlah Engkau biarkan pula cahaya cerah menyinarinya.

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

⁵Jadikanlah hari itu hitam kelam, gelap gulita, kabur dan suram; liputilah dengan awan dan mega, tudungilah dari sinar sang surya.

⁶As 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.

⁶Hendaknya malam itu dihilangkan dari hitungan tahun dan bulan; jangan lagi dikenang, jangan pula dibilang.

⁷Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

⁷Biarlah malam itu penuh kegelapan tiada kemesraan, tiada kegembiraan.

⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

⁸Hai orang perdukunan dan pengendali Lewiatan, timpalah hari itu dengan sumpah dan kutukan;

⁹Let 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:

⁹jangan sampai bintang kejora bersinar, jangan biarkan sinar fajar memancar! Biarlah malam itu percuma menunggu datangnya hari dan harapan yang baru.

¹⁰Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

¹⁰Terkutuklah malam celaka ketika aku dilahirkan bunda, dan dibiarkan menanggung sengsara.

¹¹Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

¹¹Mengapa aku tidak mati dalam rahim ibu, atau putus nyawa pada saat kelahiranku?

¹²Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

¹²Mengapa aku dipeluk ibuku dan dipangkunya, serta disusuinya pada buah dadanya?

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

¹³Sekiranya pada saat itu aku berpulang, maka aku tidur dan mengaso dengan tenang,

¹⁴With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

¹⁴seperti para raja dan penguasa dahulu kala, yang membangun kembali istana zaman purba.

¹⁵Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

¹⁵Aku tertidur seperti putra raja, yang mengisi rumahnya dengan perak kencana.

¹⁶Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

¹⁶Mengapa aku tidak lahir tanpa nyawa supaya tidurku lelap dan terlena?

¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

¹⁷Di sana, di dalam kuburan, penjahat tidak melakukan kejahatan, dan buruh yang habis tenaga dapat melepaskan lelahnya.

¹⁸There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

¹⁸Juga tawanan merasa lega, bebas dari hardik para penjaga.

¹⁹The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

¹⁹Di sana semua orang sama: yang tenar dan yang tidak ternama. Dan para budak bebas akhirnya.

²⁰Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

²⁰Mengapa manusia dibiarkan terus hidup sengsara? Mengapa terang diberi kepada yang duka?

²¹Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

²¹Mereka lebih suka kuburan daripada harta, menanti maut, tapi tak kunjung tiba.

²²Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

²²Kebahagiaan baru dapat dirasakan bila mereka mati dan dikuburkan.

²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

²³Masa depan mereka diselubungi oleh Allah, mereka dikepung olehnya dari segala arah.

²⁴For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

²⁴Gantinya makan aku mengeluh, tiada hentinya aku mengaduh.

²⁵For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

²⁵Segala yang kucemaskan, menimpa aku, segala yang kutakuti, melanda aku.

²⁶I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

²⁶Bagiku tiada ketentraman, aku menderita tanpa kesudahan."