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

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

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

²And Job answered and said:

³(3:2)

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

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

⁴Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

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

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

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

⁶As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

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

⁷Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.

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

⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

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

⁹Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

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

¹⁰Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

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

¹¹Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

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

¹²Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

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

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

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

¹⁴With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

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

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

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

¹⁶Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

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

¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

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

¹⁸There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

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

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

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

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

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

²¹Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

²²Kebahagiaan baru dapat dirasakan bila mereka mati dan dikuburkan.

²²Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?

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

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

²⁴Gantinya makan aku mengeluh, tiada hentinya aku mengaduh.

²⁴For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

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

²⁵For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.

²⁶Bagiku tiada ketentraman, aku menderita tanpa kesudahan."

²⁶I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.