¹人生在世多有愁苦

¹Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?

²正如仆人切慕暮影，又像雇工盼望工价。

²As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage,

³照样，我有空虚的岁月，也有劳苦的黑夜为我派定。

³So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

⁴我躺下的时候，就说：‘我什么时候起来？’然而，长夜漫漫，我辗转反侧，直到黎明。

⁴If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!` And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

⁵我的肉体以虫子和土块为衣裳，我的皮肤裂开又流脓。

⁵Clothed hath been my flesh [with] worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,

⁶我过的日子比梭还要快，在毫无盼望之中而结束。

⁶My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.

⁷求你记念我的性命不过是一口气，我的眼必不再看见福乐。

⁷Remember Thou that my life [is] a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.

⁸看我的，他的眼再也看不到我，你的眼要看我，我已经不在了。

⁸The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes [are] upon me — and I am not.

⁹云彩怎样消散逝去，照样，人下阴间也不再上来。

⁹Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.

¹⁰他不再回自己的家，故乡再也不认识他。

¹⁰He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.

¹¹因此，我不再禁止我的口，我要说出灵里的忧愁，倾诉心中的痛苦。

¹¹Also I — I withhold not my mouth — I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

¹²埋怨　神待他过严我岂是洋海或是海怪，你竟然设守卫防备我？

¹²A sea-[monster] am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?

¹³我若说：‘我的床必安慰我，我的榻必减轻我的苦情’，

¹³When I said, `My bed doth comfort me,` He taketh away in my talking my couch.

¹⁴你就用梦惊扰我，又用异象惊吓我，

¹⁴And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,

¹⁵以致我宁可窒息而死，也不肯保留我这一身的骨头。

¹⁵And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.

¹⁶我厌恶自己，不愿永远活下去。任凭我吧，因为我的日子都是空虚的。

¹⁶I have wasted away — not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.

¹⁷人算什么，你竟看他为大，又把他放在心上；

¹⁷What [is] man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?

¹⁸每天早晨你都鉴察他，每时每刻你也试验他。

¹⁸And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him?

¹⁹你到什么时候才转眼不看我，任凭我咽下唾沫呢？

¹⁹How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.

²⁰鉴察世人的主啊！我若犯了罪，跟你有什么关系呢？你为什么把我当作箭靶，使我以自己为重担呢？

²⁰I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself — and what?

²¹你为什么不赦免我的过犯，除去我的罪孽呢？现在我快要躺卧在尘土中，那时你寻找我，我却不在了。”

²¹Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me — and I am not!