¹约伯咒诅自己的生日

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

²约伯说：

²And Job spake, and said,

³“愿我生的那日泯灭，人说怀男胎的那夜灭没。

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

⁴愿那日变成黑暗，愿　神不从上面眷顾，愿光明不照耀在其上。

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

⁵愿黑暗与死荫索讨那日，愿密云停留在上面，愿白天的昏黑惊吓它。

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

⁶愿那夜被幽暗夺去，不让它连在平日之中，列入月数之内。

⁶As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

⁷愿那夜没有生育，也没有欢乐的声音。

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

⁸那些咒诅日子、善于惹动海怪的，愿他们咒诅那夜。

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

⁹愿那夜黎明的星星变成黑暗，愿那夜等候发光却不亮，见不到清晨的曙光。

⁹Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

¹⁰因为那夜没有把我母胎的门关闭，也没有把苦难隐藏，使我看不见。

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

¹¹切愿夭折我为什么不一离母胎就死去？我为什么不一出母腹就断气？

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

¹²为什么有膝承接我？为什么有乳哺养我？

¹²Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

¹³不然，我早已躺下安息，

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

¹⁴与世上那些为自己建造陵墓的君王和谋士同睡，

¹⁴With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

¹⁵或与那些拥有黄金，房屋装满银子的王侯同眠。

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

¹⁶我为什么不像暗中流产的胎，未见天日的婴孩，归于无有呢？

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

¹⁷在那里，恶人止息搅扰，筋疲力尽的得安息；

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

¹⁸被囚的同享安宁；听不见督工的声音；

¹⁸There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

¹⁹老少尊卑都在那里，奴仆脱离主人的辖制。

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

²⁰厌恶生存为什么有光明赐给劳碌的人，有生命赐给苦命的人呢？

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

²¹他们想死却死不了，找死胜于找宝藏；

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

²²他们找到坟墓就高兴，非常欢喜快乐。

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

²³为什么有生命赐给前途茫茫，又被　神四面围困的人呢？

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

²⁴我以叹息代替食物，我唉哼的声音如水涌出。

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

²⁵我所惧怕的临到我，我所惊恐的向我而来。

²⁵For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

²⁶我不得安逸，不得安静，也不得安息，却有搅扰来到。”

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