¹　神為甚麼要定人的罪“我厭惡我的性命，我要盡情吐苦水，傾訴心中的痛苦。

¹“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

²我要對　神說：不要定我有罪，請告訴我你為甚麼與我相爭。

²I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

³壓迫無辜，又棄絕你手所作的，卻喜悅惡人的計謀，你都以為美嗎？

³Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

⁴你的眼不是肉眼，你觀看不像人觀看，

⁴Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

⁵你的日子不如人的日子，你的年歲不像人的年歲，

⁵Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,

⁶以致你追究我的罪孽，細察我的罪過嗎？

⁶that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

⁷你知道我並沒有罪，但沒有人能救我脫離你的手。

⁷Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

⁸你的手塑我造我，但一轉過來你就要毀滅我。

⁸“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

⁹求你記念你造我如摶泥，你還要使我歸於塵土嗎？

⁹Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

¹⁰你不是把我倒出來像倒奶，又使我凝結像乳酪凝固嗎？

¹⁰Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

¹¹你以皮肉為衣給我穿上，以筋骨接絡我；

¹¹You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

¹²你賜我生命，又向我施慈愛，你的眷顧保守我的心靈。

¹²You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

¹³要人受苦，不如夭折這些事你都藏在你的心裡，我知道這是你的旨意。

¹³Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

¹⁴我若犯罪，你就鑒察，絕不赦免我的罪孽；

¹⁴if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

¹⁵我若有罪，就有禍了；我若有理，也不敢抬頭，飽嘗羞辱，看看自己的苦難。

¹⁵If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

¹⁶我若昂首自得，你就獵我如獵猛獅，又在我身上彰顯你驚人的大能。

¹⁶If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

¹⁷你重新設立見證攻擊我，對我加增你的忿怒，派兵輪流攻擊我。

¹⁷You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

¹⁸你為甚麼使我出母胎呢？我不如死去，無人得見我，

¹⁸“‘Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

¹⁹這樣，就像從來沒有我一樣，一出母腹就被送入墳墓。

¹⁹I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

²⁰我的日子不是很少嗎？請住手，轉離我，使我在往黑暗死蔭之地以先，

²⁰Aren’t my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

²¹在去而不返之前，可以喜樂片刻；

²¹before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

²²那地黑暗，如死蔭的幽暗，毫無秩序，即使有光也像幽暗。”

²²the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”