Job 3

1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.

此后，约伯开口咒诅自己的生日，

2 And Job answered and said,

说：

3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

愿我生的那日 和说怀了男胎的那夜都灭没。

4 Let that day be darkness. Let not God from above seek for it, nor let the light shine upon it.

愿那日变为黑暗； 愿 神不从上面寻找它； 愿亮光不照于其上。

5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.

愿黑暗和死荫索取那日； 愿密云停在其上； 愿日蚀恐吓它。

6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

愿那夜被幽暗夺取， 不在年中的日子同乐， 也不入月中的数目。

7 Lo, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come in it.

愿那夜没有生育， 其间也没有欢乐的声音。

8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

愿那咒诅日子且能惹动鳄鱼的 咒诅那夜。

9 Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, nor let it behold the eyelids of the morning.

愿那夜黎明的星宿变为黑暗， 盼亮却不亮， 也不见早晨的光线；

10 Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

因没有把怀我胎的门关闭， 也没有将患难对我的眼隐藏。

11 Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

我为何不出母胎而死？ 为何不出母腹绝气？

12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

为何有膝接收我？ 为何有奶哺养我？

13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest

不然，我就早已躺卧安睡，

14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built waste places for themselves,

和地上为自己重造荒邱的君王、谋士，

15 or with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

或与有金子、将银子装满了房屋的王子 一同安息；

16 Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.

或像隐而未现、不到期而落的胎， 归于无有，如同未见光的婴孩。

17 There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

在那里恶人止息搅扰， 困乏人得享安息，

18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

被囚的人同得安逸， 不听见督工的声音。

19 The small and the great are there. And the servant is free from his master.

大小都在那里； 奴仆脱离主人的辖制。

20 Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

受患难的人为何有光赐给他呢？ 心中愁苦的人为何有生命赐给他呢？

21 who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures,

他们切望死，却不得死； 求死，胜于求隐藏的珍宝。

22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave?

他们寻见坟墓就快乐， 极其欢喜。

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?

人的道路既然遮隐， 神又把他四面围困， 为何有光赐给他呢？

24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.

我未曾吃饭就发出叹息； 我唉哼的声音涌出如水。

25 For the thing which I fear comes upon me, and that which I am afraid of comes to me.

因我所恐惧的临到我身， 我所惧怕的迎我而来。

26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, neither have I rest, but trouble comes.

我不得安逸，不得平静， 也不得安息，却有患难来到。