約伯記 3
1 此後約伯開口詛咒自己的生日。
AFTER this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 約伯開始說：
And Job spake, and said,
3 願我誕生的那日消逝，願報告「懷了男胎」的那夜滅亡。
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4 願那日成為黑暗，願天主從上面不再尋覓它，再沒有光燭照它。
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 願黑暗和陰影玷污它，濃雲遮蓋它，白晝失光的晦暗驚嚇它。
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 願那夜常為黑暗所制，不讓它列入年歲中，不讓它算在月分裏。
As 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.
7 願那夜孤寂煢獨，毫無歡呼之聲。
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 願那詛咒白日者，有術召喚海怪者，前來詛咒那夜。
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 願晨星昏暗，期待光明而光明不至，也不見晨光熹微，
Let 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:
10 因為它沒有關閉我母胎之門，遮住我眼前的愁苦。
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11 我為何一出母胎沒有立即死去﹖為何我一離母腹沒有斷氣﹖
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12 為何兩膝接住我﹖為何兩乳哺養我﹖
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13 不然現今我早已臥下安睡了，早已永眠獲得安息了，
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14 與那些為自己建陵墓的國王和百官，
With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15 與那些金銀滿堂的王侯同眠；
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16 或者像隱沒的流產兒，像未見光明的嬰孩；
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17 在那裏惡人停止作亂，在那裏勞悴者得享安寧；
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18 囚徒相安無事，再不聞督工的呼叱聲，
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19 在那裏大小平等，奴隸脫離主人。
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20 為何賜不幸者以光明，賜心中憂苦者以生命﹖
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
21 這些人渴望死，而死不至；尋求死亡勝於寶藏，
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22 見到墳墓，感覺歡樂，且喜樂達於極點!
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 人的道路，既如此渺茫，天主為何賜給他生命，又把他包圍﹖
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24 歎習成了我的食物，不停哀嘆有如流水。
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25 我所畏懼的，偏偏臨於我身；我所害怕的，卻迎面而來。
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
26 我沒有安寧，也沒有平靜，得不到休息，而只有煩惱。
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
