Job 7
1 Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? and his existence as that of a hireling by the day?
人生在世，豈不像服兵役﹖人的歲月，豈不像傭工的時日﹖
2 Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? or as a hireling waiting for his pay?
有如奴工切望陰涼，傭工期待工資：
3 So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.
這樣，我也只有承受失意的歲月，為我注定的苦痛長夜。
4 Whenever I lie down, I say, When [will it be] day? and whenever I rise up, again [I say] when [will it be] evening? and I am full of pains from evening to morning.
我臥下時說：「幾時天亮﹖」我起來時又說：「黑夜何時到﹖」我整夜輾轉反側，直到天亮。
5 And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.
我的肉身以蛆蟲與泥皮為衣，我的皮膚破裂流膿。
6 And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.
我的日月速於織梭，也因無希望而中斷。
7 Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shalt not yet again see good.
請你記住：我的生命無非像一口氣，我的眼再也見不到幸福。
8 The eye of him that sees me shall not see me [again]: thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.
注目於我的，再也見不到我；你的眼看我時、我已不在了。
9 [I am] as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again: (Sheol h7585)
他去了，好像雲消霧散；下到陰府的，再也不得上來， (Sheol h7585)
10 and he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.
不再回家，本鄉也不認識他。
11 Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.
為此，我不能再閉口不言，我要吐露我心靈的憂愁，陳述我靈魂的苦楚。
12 Am I a sea, or a serpent, that thou hast set a watch over me?
我豈是海洋或海怪﹖你竟派遣警衛把守我。
13 I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.
我若想：「我的床榻會寬慰我，我的臥舖會減輕我的痛苦。」
14 Thou scarest me with dreams, and dost terrify me with visions.
你就以噩夢擾亂我，以異像驚嚇我。
15 Thou wilt separate life from my spirit; and yet [keep] my bones from death.
我的心靈寧願窒息，寧死不願受此苦痛。
16 For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life [is] vain.
我已筋疲力盡，活不下去。任憑我去罷! 因為我的日月僅是一口氣。
17 For what is man, that thou hast magnified him? or that thou givest heed to him?
人算什麼，你竟如此顯揚他，將他置諸心頭，
18 Wilt thou visit him till the morning, and judge him till [the time of] rest?
天天早晨看護他，時刻不斷考察他﹖
19 How long dost thou not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?
你到何時纔不注視我，而讓我輕鬆咽一下唾沫﹖
20 If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O thou that understandest the mind of men? why hast thou made me as thine accuser, and [why] am I a burden to thee?
監察人者啊! 我犯罪與你何干﹖為何叫我當你的箭靶，使我成為你的重擔﹖
21 Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning I am no more.
為何你不肯容忍我的過錯，寬赦我的罪惡﹖不久我將臥在塵土中，任你尋找我，我已不在了。
