¹Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

¹力言人生是短暫且可悲“婦人所生的日子短少，滿有攪擾；

²He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

²他生長如花，又遭割下；他飛去如影，並不停留。

³And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

³這樣的人你還睜眼看他，又把他帶到你跟前受審嗎？

⁴Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

⁴誰能使潔淨出於污穢呢？無人有此本事。

⁵Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

⁵人的日子既然被限定，他的月數亦在乎你，你也定下他的界限，使他不能越過。

⁶Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

⁶就求你轉眼不看他，使他得歇息，直等到他像雇工一樣享受他的日子。

⁷For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

⁷樹木常有希望，樹木若被砍下，也會再發芽，嫩枝仍生長不息。

⁸Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

⁸雖然樹根衰老在地裡，樹幹也枯死在土中，

⁹Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

⁹一有水氣，就會萌芽，又生長枝條如新栽的樹一樣。

¹⁰But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

¹⁰人死了，就化為烏有；人一氣絕就不在了。

¹¹As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

¹¹海洋中的水消失，江河枯竭乾涸，

¹²So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

¹²人也是這樣一躺下去，就不再起來，直到天都沒有了還不醒過來，也不能從睡眠中被喚醒。

¹³O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

¹³但願你把我藏在陰間，把我隱藏，直到你的怒氣過去；願你為我定一個期限，好記念我。

¹⁴If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

¹⁴人若死了，怎能再活呢？我要在我一切勞苦的日子等待，等到我得釋放的時候來到。

¹⁵Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

¹⁵你一呼叫，我就回答你，你必渴慕你手所作的。

¹⁶For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

¹⁶但現在你數點我的腳步，必不再鑒察我的罪過，

¹⁷My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

¹⁷我的過犯被你封在囊中，我的罪孽你以灰泥遮蓋了。

¹⁸And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

¹⁸山崩下墜，巖石挪開原處；

¹⁹The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

¹⁹流水磨蝕石頭，水的氾溢沖去地上的塵土，你也這樣滅絕人的指望。

²⁰Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

²⁰你永遠勝過人，人就去世，你改變他的容貌，把他遣走。

²¹His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

²¹他的兒女得尊榮，他並不曉得，他們降為卑，他也不覺得，

²²But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

²²只覺自己身上的痛苦，為自己悲哀。”