¹安慰人的反叫人愁烦

¹And Job answereth and saith: —

²“像这样的话，我听了很多；你们都是叫人愁烦的安慰者。

²I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters [are] ye all.

³虚空的言语，有穷尽吗？或有什么惹你答个不休的呢？

³Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?

⁴你们若处在我的景况，我也能像你们那样说话，我也能砌辞攻击你们，并且能向你们摇头。

⁴I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul`s stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

⁵我能用口鼓励你们，我嘴唇的安慰，能缓和你们的痛苦。

⁵I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.

⁶力陈他的痛苦我若说话，痛苦仍不消解，我若闭口不说，痛苦也不离开我。

⁶If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease — what goeth from me?

⁷现在　神使我困倦，‘你蹂躏了我的全家，

⁷Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,

⁸又把我捆绑起来。’这就作为证据；我身体的枯瘦也当面作证反对我。

⁸And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

⁹他的怒气撕裂我，攻击我；他向我咬牙切齿，我的敌人以锐利的眼光看着我。

⁹His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.

¹⁰他们向我大大张嘴，以蔑视的态度打我的脸颊，联合一起攻击我。

¹⁰They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

¹¹　神把我交给不义的人，把我丢在恶人的手中。

¹¹God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.

¹²我本来安逸，他却把我压碎；掐着我的颈项，把我摔碎；又把我当作他的箭靶。

¹²At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

¹³他的弓箭手四面包围我，他剖开我的腰子，全不顾惜，把我的胆倾倒在地上。

¹³Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.

¹⁴他把我破伤，在破口上又加破伤，如勇士一般向我直冲。

¹⁴He breaketh me — breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.

¹⁵我把麻布缝在我的皮肤上，把我的角插入尘土中。

¹⁵Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.

¹⁶我的脸因哭泣而发红，在我的眼皮上满是黑影。

¹⁶My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids [is] death-shade.

¹⁷然而在我的手中没有强暴，我的祷告也是清洁的。

¹⁷Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer [is] pure.

¹⁸向　神哭诉地啊，不要遮盖我的血；不要让我的哀求有停留的地方。

¹⁸O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.

¹⁹现今，在天上有我的见证，在高天之上，有我的证人。

¹⁹Also, now, lo, in the heavens [is] my witness, And my testifier in the high places.

²⁰讥笑我的，就是我的朋友，我的眼向　神流泪。

²⁰My interpreter [is] my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:

²¹但愿人可以为人与　神分辩，正如世人为朋友辩白一样。

²¹And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.

²²因为我的年数将尽，我快要走上那条一去不返的路。”

²²When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.