约伯记 3

1 此后，约伯开口咒诅自己的生日，

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

2 说：

And Job spoke, and said,

3 愿我生的那日 和说怀了男胎的那夜都灭没。

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

4 愿那日变为黑暗； 愿 神不从上面寻找它； 愿亮光不照于其上。

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

5 愿黑暗和死荫索取那日； 愿密云停在其上； 愿日蚀恐吓它。

Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 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。

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.

7 愿那夜没有生育， 其间也没有欢乐的声音。

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

8 愿那咒诅日子且能惹动鳄鱼的 咒诅那夜。

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

9 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；

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:

10 因没有把怀我胎的门关闭， 也没有将患难对我的眼隐藏。

Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.

11 我为何不出母胎而死？ 为何不出母腹绝气？

Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] expire at the time of my birth?

12 为何有膝接收我？ 为何有奶哺养我？

Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?

13 不然，我就早已躺卧安睡，

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

14 和地上为自己重造荒邱的君王、谋士，

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

15 或与有金子、将银子装满了房屋的王子 一同安息；

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

16 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。

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.

17 在那里恶人止息搅扰， 困乏人得享安息，

There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary are at rest.

18 被囚的人同得安逸， 不听见督工的声音。

[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

19 大小都在那里； 奴仆脱离主人的辖制。

The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.

20 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？

Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter [in] soul;

21 他们切望死，却不得死； 求死，胜于求隐藏的珍宝。

Who long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

22 他们寻见坟墓就快乐， 极其欢喜。

Who rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?

23 人的道路既然遮隐， 神又把他四面围困， 为何有光赐给他呢？

[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

24 我未曾吃饭就发出叹息； 我唉哼的声音涌出如水。

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

25 因我所恐惧的临到我身， 我所惧怕的迎我而来。

For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.

26 我不得安逸，不得平静， 也不得安息，却有患难来到。

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