¹My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

¹再陳他的痛苦“我的氣息將斷，我的日子快盡，墳墓已為我預備好了。

²Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

²真有嘲笑人的在我這裡，我的眼看著他們的悖逆。

³Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

³願你給我保證，親自為我作保；除你以外有誰肯與我擊掌作保呢？

⁴For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

⁴你蒙蔽了他們的心，不讓他們明白；因此你必不高舉他們。

⁵He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

⁵為分產業而控告朋友的，他子孫的眼睛也要昏花。

⁶He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

⁶他使我成為民眾的笑柄，人人都吐唾沫在我的臉上。

⁷Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

⁷我的眼睛因憂愁而昏花，我的身體瘦骨如柴。

⁸Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

⁸正直人必因此驚訝，要被激發起來，攻擊不敬虔的人。

⁹The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

⁹義人必堅守自己的道路，手潔的人要力上加力。

¹⁰But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

¹⁰然而你們眾人，可以再來，在你們中間我找不到一個有智慧的人。

¹¹My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

¹¹等候死亡來臨我的日子已過，我的謀算和我心中所想的都已粉碎。

¹²They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

¹²他們把黑夜變為白晝，因為黑暗的緣故，他們就說：‘光明臨近了。’

¹³If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

¹³我若等待陰間作我的家，在黑暗中鋪張我的床榻；

¹⁴I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

¹⁴我若對深坑說：‘你是我的父親’，對蟲說：‘你是我的母親，我的姊妹’，

¹⁵And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

¹⁵那麼，我的指望在哪裡呢？我的指望誰能看得見呢？

¹⁶They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

¹⁶等到安息在塵土中的時候，那些指望必下到陰間的門閂那裡。”