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

¹[Ny fitarainan'i Joba noho ny fahoriana nanjo azy] Rehefa afaka izany, dia niloa-bava Joba ka nanozona ny androny

²And Job answered and said,

²nanao hoe:

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

³Foàna anie ny andro nahaterahako sy ny alina izay nanao hoe: Misy zazalahy vao torontoronina!

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

⁴Izany andro izany dia aoka ho maizina, ary aoka tsy hitady azy Andriamanitra any ambony; ary aoka tsy hisy mazava hamirapiratra aminy;

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

⁵Aoka ny aizina sy ny aloky ny fahafatesana hahalasa azy indray; Aoka ny rahona hitatao eo amboniny; Aoka izay zavatra mahamaizina ny andro hampahatsiravina azy.[Na:handoto azy]

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.

⁶Izany alina izany aoka ny aizim-pito hisambotra azy; Aoka tsy hiara-mifaly amin'ny andron'ny taona izy. Ary tsy ho tonga amin'ny isan'ny volana;

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

⁷Indro izany alina izany aoka ho momba izy; Aoka tsy ho velona ao ny hoby;

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

⁸Aoka hanozona azy ny mpanozona andro, Izay mahay mamoha ny dragona;

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:

⁹Aoka ho maizina ny kintan'ny marainany; Aoka hiandry ny mazava izy, nefa tsy hisy, ary aoka tsy ho faly mahita ny hodimason'ny maraina izy,

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

¹⁰Satria tsy nanidy ny varavaran'ny kibon'ineny izy ka tsy nanafina fahoriana tamin'ny masoko.

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

¹¹Nahoana re aho no tsy maty hatrany am-bohoka e, ary tsy niala aina, fony vao nivoaka avy tany an-kibo e?

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

¹²Nahoana no nisy lohalika niandry ahy? Ary nahoana no nisy nono hinonoako?

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

¹³Fa raha tsy izany, dia efa nandry aho toy izay ka niadana, eny, natory aho ka afa-tsasatra,

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

¹⁴Teo amin'ny mpanjaka sy ny mpanolo-tsaina avy amin'ny tany, izay nanao ireny tanàna efa rava, [Na: namboatra][Na: fasana lehibe]

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

¹⁵Na teo amin'ny andriandahy izay manana volamena sady mameno volafotsy ny tranony;

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

¹⁶Na efa tsy ary toy ny zaza tsy tonga volana aho ka nafenina, dia toy ny zaza izay tsy nahita ny mazava akory.

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

¹⁷Any no itsaharan'ny ratsy fanahy tsy hampitebiteby, ary any ny reraka no afa-tsasatra;

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

¹⁸Miara-miadana avokoa ny mpifatotra; Tsy mandre ny feon'ny mpampiasa izy.

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

¹⁹Samy any ny kely sy ny lehibe, Ary ny mpanompo dia afaka amin'ny tompony.

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

²⁰Nahoana no fahazavana no mba omena ny reraka, ary fiainana ho an'izay latsaka amin'ny fangidiana?

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

²¹Izay miandry fahafatesana, nefa tsy avy izy, sady mitady azy mihoatra noho ny fitady harena nafenina:

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

²²Izay faly indrindra sady ravoravo, raha mahita ny fasana,

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

²³Dia olona izay mandeha ao amin'ny maizina sady voafefin'Andriamanitra manodidina.

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

²⁴Fa mialoha ny haninkaniko ny fitolokoko, ary migororoana toy ny rano ny fidradradradrako;

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

²⁵Fa Izay atahorako no mahazo ahy, ary izay angovitako no manjo ahy.Tsy mbola nahita fiadanana na fitsaharana na fakàna aina akory aza aho, dia tonga indray ny tebiteby.

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

²⁶Tsy mbola nahita fiadanana na fitsaharana na fakàna aina akory aza aho, dia tonga indray ny tebiteby.