约伯记 7
1 人在世上岂无争战吗？ 他的日子不像雇工人的日子吗？
[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?
2 像奴仆切慕黑影， 像雇工人盼望工价；
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for [the reward of] his work:
3 我也照样经过困苦的日月， 夜间的疲乏为我而定。
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 我躺卧的时候便说： 我何时起来，黑夜就过去呢？ 我尽是反来复去，直到天亮。
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
5 我的肉体以虫子和尘土为衣； 我的皮肤才收了口又重新破裂。
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
6 我的日子比梭更快， 都消耗在无指望之中。
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 求你想念，我的生命不过是一口气； 我的眼睛必不再见福乐。
O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
8 观看我的人，他的眼必不再见我； 你的眼目要看我，我却不在了。
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more: ] thine eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not.
[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more]. (Sheol h7585)
10 他不再回自己的家； 故土也不再认识他。
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
11 我不禁止我口； 我灵愁苦，要发出言语； 我心苦恼，要吐露哀情。
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 我对 神说：我岂是洋海， 岂是大鱼，你竟防守我呢？
[Am] I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
13 若说：我的床必安慰我， 我的榻必解释我的苦情，
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
14 你就用梦惊骇我， 用异象恐吓我，
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
15 甚至我宁肯噎死，宁肯死亡， 胜似留我这一身的骨头。
So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
16 我厌弃性命，不愿永活。 你任凭我吧，因我的日子都是虚空。
I loathe [it; ] I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.
17 人算什么，你竟看他为大， 将他放在心上？
What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
18 每早鉴察他， 时刻试验他？
And [that] thou shouldest visit him every morning, [and] try him every moment?
19 你到何时才转眼不看我， 才任凭我咽下唾沫呢？
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
20 鉴察人的主啊，我若有罪，于你何妨？ 为何以我当你的箭靶子， 使我厌弃自己的性命？
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
21 为何不赦免我的过犯， 除掉我的罪孽？ 我现今要躺卧在尘土中； 你要殷勤地寻找我，我却不在了。
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be].
