約伯記 7
1 人在世上豈無爭戰嗎？ 他的日子不像雇工人的日子嗎？
Does not man have hard labor on earth? Are not his days like the days of a hired man?
2 像奴僕切慕黑影， 像雇工人盼望工價；
Like a slave earnestly desires the shadows of evening, like a hired man looks for his wages—
3 我也照樣經過困苦的日月， 夜間的疲乏為我而定。
so I have been made to endure months of misery; I have been given trouble-filled nights.
4 我躺臥的時候便說： 我何時起來，黑夜就過去呢？ 我盡是反來覆去，直到天亮。
When I lie down, I say to myself, 'When will I get up and when will the night be gone?' I am full of tossing to and fro until the day's dawning.
5 我的肉體以蟲子和塵土為衣； 我的皮膚才收了口又重新破裂。
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; the sores in my skin harden up and then dissolve and run afresh.
6 我的日子比梭更快， 都消耗在無指望之中。
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle; they pass without hope.
7 求你想念，我的生命不過是一口氣； 我的眼睛必不再見福樂。
God, call to mind that my life is only a breath; my eye will no more see good.
8 觀看我的人，他的眼必不再見我； 你的眼目要看我，我卻不在了。
The eye of God, who sees me, will see me no more; God's eyes will be on me, but I will not exist.
As a cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more. (Sheol h7585)
10 他不再回自己的家； 故土也不再認識他。
He will return no more to his house; neither will his place know him again.
11 我不禁止我口； 我靈愁苦，要發出言語； 我心苦惱，要吐露哀情。
Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 我對上帝說：我豈是洋海， 豈是大魚，你竟防守我呢？
Am I the sea or a sea monster that you place a guard over me?
13 若說：我的床必安慰我， 我的榻必解釋我的苦情，
When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,'
14 你就用夢驚駭我， 用異象恐嚇我，
then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
15 甚至我寧肯噎死，寧肯死亡， 勝似留我這一身的骨頭。
so that I would choose strangling and death rather than preserving these bones of mine.
16 我厭棄性命，不願永活。 你任憑我吧，因我的日子都是虛空。
I loathe my life; I would not wish to always be alive; let me alone for my days are useless.
17 人算甚麼，你竟看他為大， 將他放在心上？
What is man that you should pay attention to him, that you should set your mind on him,
18 每早鑒察他， 時刻試驗他？
that you should observe him every morning and test him every moment?
19 你到何時才轉眼不看我， 才任憑我咽下唾沫呢？
How long will it be before you look away from me, before you let me alone long enough for me to swallow down my own saliva?
20 鑒察人的主啊，我若有罪，於你何妨？ 為何以我當你的箭靶子， 使我厭棄自己的性命？
Even if I have sinned, what would that do to you, you who watch men? Why have you made a target of me, so that I am a burden for you?
21 為何不赦免我的過犯， 除掉我的罪孽？ 我現今要躺臥在塵土中； 你要殷勤地尋找我，我卻不在了。
Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust; you will seek me carefully, but I will not exist.”
