¹約伯咒詛自己的生日後來，約伯開口咒詛自己的生日。

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

²約伯說：

²Job answered:

³“願我生的那日泯滅，人說懷男胎的那夜滅沒。

³“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

⁴願那日變成黑暗，願　神不從上面眷顧，願光明不照耀在其上。

⁴Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

⁵願黑暗與死蔭索討那日，願密雲停留在上面，願白天的昏黑驚嚇它。

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

⁶願那夜被幽暗奪去，不讓它連在平日之中，列入月數之內。

⁶As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

⁷願那夜沒有生育，也沒有歡樂的聲音。

⁷Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

⁸那些咒詛日子、善於惹動海怪的，願他們咒詛那夜。

⁸Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

⁹願那夜黎明的星星變成黑暗，願那夜等候發光卻不亮，見不到清晨的曙光。

⁹Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

¹⁰因為那夜沒有把我母胎的門關閉，也沒有把苦難隱藏，使我看不見。

¹⁰because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

¹¹切願夭折我為甚麼不一離母胎就死去？我為甚麼不一出母腹就斷氣？

¹¹“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

¹²為甚麼有膝承接我？為甚麼有乳哺養我？

¹²Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

¹³不然，我早已躺下安息，

¹³For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

¹⁴與世上那些為自己建造陵墓的君王和謀士同睡，

¹⁴with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

¹⁵或與那些擁有黃金，房屋裝滿銀子的王侯同眠。

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

¹⁶我為甚麼不像暗中流產的胎，未見天日的嬰孩，歸於無有呢？

¹⁶or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

¹⁷在那裡，惡人止息攪擾，筋疲力盡的得安息；

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

¹⁸被囚的同享安寧；聽不見督工的聲音；

¹⁸There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

¹⁹老少尊卑都在那裡，奴僕脫離主人的轄制。

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

²⁰厭惡生存為甚麼有光明賜給勞碌的人，有生命賜給苦命的人呢？

²⁰“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

²¹他們想死卻死不了，找死勝於找寶藏；

²¹Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

²²他們找到墳墓就高興，非常歡喜快樂。

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

²³為甚麼有生命賜給前途茫茫，又被　神四面圍困的人呢？

²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

²⁴我以歎息代替食物，我唉哼的聲音如水湧出。

²⁴For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

²⁵我所懼怕的臨到我，我所驚恐的向我而來。

²⁵For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

²⁶我不得安逸，不得安靜，也不得安息，卻有攪擾來到。”

²⁶I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes.”