¹再陳他的痛苦“我的氣息將斷，我的日子快盡，墳墓已為我預備好了。

¹“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

²真有嘲笑人的在我這裡，我的眼看著他們的悖逆。

²Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

³願你給我保證，親自為我作保；除你以外有誰肯與我擊掌作保呢？

³“Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

⁴你蒙蔽了他們的心，不讓他們明白；因此你必不高舉他們。

⁴For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

⁵為分產業而控告朋友的，他子孫的眼睛也要昏花。

⁵He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

⁶他使我成為民眾的笑柄，人人都吐唾沫在我的臉上。

⁶“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

⁷我的眼睛因憂愁而昏花，我的身體瘦骨如柴。

⁷My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

⁸正直人必因此驚訝，要被激發起來，攻擊不敬虔的人。

⁸Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

⁹義人必堅守自己的道路，手潔的人要力上加力。

⁹Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

¹⁰然而你們眾人，可以再來，在你們中間我找不到一個有智慧的人。

¹⁰But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

¹¹等候死亡來臨我的日子已過，我的謀算和我心中所想的都已粉碎。

¹¹My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

¹²他們把黑夜變為白晝，因為黑暗的緣故，他們就說：‘光明臨近了。’

¹²They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

¹³我若等待陰間作我的家，在黑暗中鋪張我的床榻；

¹³If I look for Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

¹⁴我若對深坑說：‘你是我的父親’，對蟲說：‘你是我的母親，我的姊妹’，

¹⁴If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’

¹⁵那麼，我的指望在哪裡呢？我的指望誰能看得見呢？

¹⁵where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

¹⁶等到安息在塵土中的時候，那些指望必下到陰間的門閂那裡。”

¹⁶Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , or descend together into the dust?”