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

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

²And Job answered and said,

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

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

³(3:2)

⁴That day -- let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let 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 claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners 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.

⁶That 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.

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

⁷Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;

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

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

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

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

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 the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

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

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

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

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

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

¹³For now should I have lain down 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, who build desolate places for themselves,

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

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

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

¹⁶Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁹The small and great are there, and the bondman freed 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 trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

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

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

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

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

²²Kebahagiaan baru dapat dirasakan bila mereka mati dan dikuburkan.

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

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

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

²⁴Gantinya makan aku mengeluh, tiada hentinya aku mengaduh.

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

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

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

²⁶Bagiku tiada ketentraman, aku menderita tanpa kesudahan."