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 spoke, and said,

说：

3 Let the day perish when I was born, and the night in which it was 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 regard it from above, neither 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 stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify 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 darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to 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 solitary, 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 that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

愿那咒诅日子且能惹动鳄鱼的 咒诅那夜。

9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

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 shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow 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 died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the womb?

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 breasts that I should be nursed?

为何有膝接收我？ 为何有奶哺养我？

13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

不然，我就早已躺卧安睡，

14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;

和地上为自己重造荒邱的君王、谋士，

15 Or with princes that 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 as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which 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 rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

被囚的人同得安逸， 不听见督工的声音。

19 The small and 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 that 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 cometh 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 hath 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 cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

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 greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I feared hath come to me.

因我所恐惧的临到我身， 我所惧怕的迎我而来。

26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

我不得安逸，不得平静， 也不得安息，却有患难来到。