Job 7
1 “People need to work hard on this earth, like soldiers do; all during the time that we are alive, we work hard [RHQ], like laborers/servants do.
人在世上豈無爭戰嗎？ 他的日子不像雇工人的日子嗎？
2 We are like [SIM] slaves who keep wanting to be in the cool shade, and we are like [SIM] workers who are waiting to be paid.
像奴僕切慕黑影， 像雇工人盼望工價；
3 God has given me many months [in which I think that it is] useless [to remain alive]; he has allotted/given to me many nights during which I feel miserable.
我也照樣經過困苦的日月， 夜間的疲乏為我而定。
4 When I lie down [at night] I say, ‘How long will it be until morning?’ But nights are long, and I (toss/turn over and over) [on my bed] until dawn.
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。
5 My body is covered with maggots and scabs; pus oozes out of my open sores.
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。
6 My days pass as quickly as a weaver’s (shuttle/stick that takes the thread back and forth), and they end without my confidently expecting [that things will be better the next day].
我的日子比梭更快， 都消耗在無指望之中。
7 God, do not forget that my life is [as short as] a breath [MET]; I [think that] I [SYN] will never again be happy.
求你想念，我的生命不過是一口氣； 我的眼睛必不再見福樂。
8 God, you [SYN] see me now, but [some day] you will not see me any more. You will search for me, but I will be gone [because I will be dead].
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。
9 Like [SIM] clouds (disperse/break up) and then disappear, people [die and] descend to the place where dead people are, and they do not return; (Sheol h7585)
雲彩消散而過； 照樣，人下陰間也不再上來。 (Sheol h7585)
10 they never return to their houses, and people among whom they lived do not remember them any more.
他不再回自己的家； 故土也不再認識他。
11 So, I will not be silent; while I am suffering I will speak; I will complain [to God about what has happened to me] because I [SYN] am very angry.
我不禁止我口； 我靈愁苦，要發出言語； 我心苦惱，要吐露哀情。
12 [God, ] why do you watch closely what I am doing? [Do you think that] I am a [dangerous] sea monster?
我對上帝說：我豈是洋海， 豈是大魚，你竟防守我呢？
13 When [I lie down at night, ] I think, ‘I will be comforted here on my bed; my pain will be less while I am sleeping.’
若說：我的床必安慰我， 我的榻必解釋我的苦情，
14 But then you give me dreams that cause me to be afraid; you give me visions that terrify me,
你就用夢驚駭我， 用異象恐嚇我，
15 with the result that I would prefer to be strangled to death than to continue to [be alive] being only a bunch of bones.
甚至我寧肯噎死，寧肯死亡， 勝似留我這一身的骨頭。
16 I detest continuing to be alive; I do not want to live for many years [HYP]. Allow me to be alone, [because I will be alive] for only a very short remaining time [HYP].
我厭棄性命，不願永活。 你任憑我吧，因我的日子都是虛空。
17 “We human beings are not [very important]; so, why do you pay a lot of attention to us [DOU]?
人算甚麼，你竟看他為大， 將他放在心上？
18 You look at us every morning [to see what we are doing], and examine us every moment [to see if we are doing what is right].
每早鑒察他， 時刻試驗他？
19 (When will you stop looking at me and leave me alone [for a little time], long enough to swallow my spit?/Please stop looking at me and leave me alone [for a little time], long enough to swallow my spit.) [RHQ]
你到何時才轉眼不看我， 才任憑我咽下唾沫呢？
20 [Why do] you watch me constantly? If I sin, that certainly does not harm you! Why have you set me up like a target to shoot at? Do you consider me to be a heavy load that you are forced to carry?
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？
21 [If I have sinned, ] are you not able to forgive me for my sins— the things that I have done that are wrong? Soon I will lie in my grave; you will search for me, but [you will not find me because] I will be [dead and] gone.”
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。
