Job 3

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

此後，約伯開口咒詛自己的生日，

2 And Job spoke, and said,

說：

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

願我生的那日 和說懷了男胎的那夜都滅沒。

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

願那日變為黑暗； 願上帝不從上面尋找它； 願亮光不照於其上。

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

願黑暗和死蔭索取那日； 願密雲停在其上； 願日蝕恐嚇它。

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.

願那夜被幽暗奪取， 不在年中的日子同樂， 也不入月中的數目。

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

願那夜沒有生育， 其間也沒有歡樂的聲音。

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

願那咒詛日子且能惹動鱷魚的 咒詛那夜。

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:

願那夜黎明的星宿變為黑暗， 盼亮卻不亮， 也不見早晨的光線；

10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.

因沒有把懷我胎的門關閉， 也沒有將患難對我的眼隱藏。

11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the womb?

我為何不出母胎而死？ 為何不出母腹絕氣？

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

為何有膝接收我？ 為何有奶哺養我？

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

不然，我就早已躺臥安睡，

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

和地上為自己重造荒邱的君王、謀士，

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

或與有金子、將銀子裝滿了房屋的王子 一同安息；

16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

或像隱而未現、不到期而落的胎， 歸於無有，如同未見光的嬰孩。

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

在那裏惡人止息攪擾， 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， 不聽見督工的聲音。

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

大小都在那裏； 奴僕脫離主人的轄制。

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

受患難的人為何有光賜給他呢？ 心中愁苦的人為何有生命賜給他呢？

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

他們切望死，卻不得死； 求死，勝於求隱藏的珍寶。

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

他們尋見墳墓就快樂， 極其歡喜。

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

人的道路既然遮隱， 上帝又把他四面圍困， 為何有光賜給他呢？

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

我未曾吃飯就發出歎息； 我唉哼的聲音湧出如水。

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

因我所恐懼的臨到我身， 我所懼怕的迎我而來。

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

我不得安逸，不得平靜， 也不得安息，卻有患難來到。