¹力言人生是短暫且可悲“婦人所生的日子短少，滿有攪擾；

¹“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

²他生長如花，又遭割下；他飛去如影，並不停留。

²He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

³這樣的人你還睜眼看他，又把他帶到你跟前受審嗎？

³Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

⁴誰能使潔淨出於污穢呢？無人有此本事。

⁴Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

⁵人的日子既然被限定，他的月數亦在乎你，你也定下他的界限，使他不能越過。

⁵Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

⁶就求你轉眼不看他，使他得歇息，直等到他像雇工一樣享受他的日子。

⁶Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

⁷樹木常有希望，樹木若被砍下，也會再發芽，嫩枝仍生長不息。

⁷“For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

⁸雖然樹根衰老在地裡，樹幹也枯死在土中，

⁸Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

⁹一有水氣，就會萌芽，又生長枝條如新栽的樹一樣。

⁹yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

¹⁰人死了，就化為烏有；人一氣絕就不在了。

¹⁰But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

¹¹海洋中的水消失，江河枯竭乾涸，

¹¹As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

¹²人也是這樣一躺下去，就不再起來，直到天都沒有了還不醒過來，也不能從睡眠中被喚醒。

¹²so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

¹³但願你把我藏在陰間，把我隱藏，直到你的怒氣過去；願你為我定一個期限，好記念我。

¹³“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

¹⁴人若死了，怎能再活呢？我要在我一切勞苦的日子等待，等到我得釋放的時候來到。

¹⁴If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

¹⁵你一呼叫，我就回答你，你必渴慕你手所作的。

¹⁵You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

¹⁶但現在你數點我的腳步，必不再鑒察我的罪過，

¹⁶But now you number my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

¹⁷我的過犯被你封在囊中，我的罪孽你以灰泥遮蓋了。

¹⁷My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

¹⁸山崩下墜，巖石挪開原處；

¹⁸“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

¹⁹流水磨蝕石頭，水的氾溢沖去地上的塵土，你也這樣滅絕人的指望。

¹⁹The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

²⁰你永遠勝過人，人就去世，你改變他的容貌，把他遣走。

²⁰You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

²¹他的兒女得尊榮，他並不曉得，他們降為卑，他也不覺得，

²¹His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

²²只覺自己身上的痛苦，為自己悲哀。”

²²But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”