約伯記 10

1 我實在厭惡我的生活，我要任意苦訴我的怨情，傾吐我心中的酸苦。

Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

2 我要對天主說：不要定我的罪! 請告訴我：你為何與我作對﹖

And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?

3 你對親手所造的，加以虐待和厭棄，卻顯揚惡人的計劃，為你豈有好處﹖

Is it good before you if I be unrighteous? for you have disowned the work of your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

4 你豈有肉眼，或者也像人一樣觀看嗎﹖

Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?

5 你的日月豈像人的日月﹖你的年歲豈像人的年歲﹖

Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,

6 你竟考查我的邪惡，追究我的罪過。

that you have enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?

7 其實你知道我並沒有罪過，也知道無人能拯救我脫離你的掌握。

For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?

8 你親手形成了我，創造了我；此後你又轉念想消滅我。

Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.

9 求你記憶：你造我時就像摶泥，難道還使我歸於泥土﹖

Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth.

10 你不是將我像奶倒出，使我凝結像一塊奶餅﹖

Hast you not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

11 用皮和肉作我的衣服，用骨和筋把我全身聯絡起來﹖

And you did clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.

12 是你將我生命的恩惠賜給了我，細心照顧維持了我的氣息。

And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.

13 這些事早已藏在你心中，我知道你久有此意：

Having these things in yourself, I know that you can do all things; for nothing is impossible with you.

14 你監視我，看我是否犯罪；如果我有罪；你決不放過。

And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity.

15 我若有罪，我就有禍了! 我若有義，也不敢抬頭，因為我已備嘗凌辱，吃盡苦頭。

Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I can’t lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.

16 我若抬頭，你就像獅子追捕我，向我表現你的奇能，

For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;

17 重新襲擊我，加倍對我洩怒。

renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.

18 你為何叫我出離母胎﹖不如我那時斷氣，無人見我，

Why then did you bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,

19 就好像從未有過我一樣，一出母胎即被送入墳墓。

and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

20 我生存的日月不是很少嗎﹖你且放開我罷!

Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,

21 趁我去而不返，未到冥暗死影之地，

before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

22 即光明也是黑暗之地以前，讓我自在一下罷!

to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.