Job 7
1 “Is there not warfare to man on earth? And his days as the days of a hired worker?
人生在世，豈不像服兵役﹖人的歲月，豈不像傭工的時日﹖
2 As a servant desires the shadow, And as a hired worker expects his wage,
有如奴工切望陰涼，傭工期待工資：
3 So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And they numbered nights of misery to me.
這樣，我也只有承受失意的歲月，為我注定的苦痛長夜。
4 If I lay down, then I have said, When do I rise, And evening has been measured? And I have been full of tossings until dawn.
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 My flesh has been clothed [with] worms, And a clod of dust, My skin has been shriveled and is loathsome,
我的肉身以蛆蟲與泥皮為衣，我的皮膚破裂流膿。
6 My days swifter than a loom, And they are consumed without hope.
我的日月速於織梭，也因無希望而中斷。
7 Remember that my life [is] a breath, My eye does not turn back to 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 my beholder does not behold me. Your eyes [are] on me—and I am not.
注目於我的，再也見不到我；你的眼看我時、我已不在了。
9 A cloud has been consumed, and it goes, So he who is going down to Sheol does not come up. (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 He does not turn to his house again, Nor does his place discern him again.
不再回家，本鄉也不認識他。
11 Also I do not withhold my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in 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 [monster], or a dragon, That You set a watch over me?
我豈是海洋或海怪﹖你竟派遣警衛把守我。
13 When I said, My bed comforts me, In my talking He takes away 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 And You have frightened me with dreams, And You terrify me from visions,
你就以噩夢擾亂我，以異像驚嚇我。
15 And my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones.
我的心靈寧願窒息，寧死不願受此苦痛。
16 I have wasted away—I do not live for all time. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.
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 What [is] man that You magnify him? And that You set Your heart to him?
人算什麼，你竟如此顯揚他，將他置諸心頭，
18 And inspect him in the mornings, [And] in the evenings try him?
天天早晨看護他，時刻不斷考察他﹖
19 How long do You not look from me? You do not desist until I swallow my spittle.
你到何時纔不注視我，而讓我輕鬆咽一下唾沫﹖
20 I have sinned, what do I do to You, O watcher of man? Why have You set me for a mark to You, And I am for a burden to myself—and what?
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 You do not take away my transgression, And [do not] cause my iniquity to pass away, Because now, I lie down in dust, And You have sought me—and I am not!”
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。
