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

¹約伯咒詛自己的生日後來，約伯開口咒詛自己的生日。

²And Job spake, and said,

²約伯說：

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

³“願我生的那日泯滅，人說懷男胎的那夜滅沒。

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

⁴願那日變成黑暗，願　神不從上面眷顧，願光明不照耀在其上。

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

⁵願黑暗與死蔭索討那日，願密雲停留在上面，願白天的昏黑驚嚇它。

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.

⁶願那夜被幽暗奪去，不讓它連在平日之中，列入月數之內。

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

⁷願那夜沒有生育，也沒有歡樂的聲音。

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

⁸那些咒詛日子、善於惹動海怪的，願他們咒詛那夜。

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:

⁹願那夜黎明的星星變成黑暗，願那夜等候發光卻不亮，見不到清晨的曙光。

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

¹⁰因為那夜沒有把我母胎的門關閉，也沒有把苦難隱藏，使我看不見。

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

¹¹切願夭折我為甚麼不一離母胎就死去？我為甚麼不一出母腹就斷氣？

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

¹²為甚麼有膝承接我？為甚麼有乳哺養我？

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

¹³不然，我早已躺下安息，

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

¹⁴與世上那些為自己建造陵墓的君王和謀士同睡，

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

¹⁵或與那些擁有黃金，房屋裝滿銀子的王侯同眠。

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

¹⁶我為甚麼不像暗中流產的胎，未見天日的嬰孩，歸於無有呢？

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

¹⁷在那裡，惡人止息攪擾，筋疲力盡的得安息；

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

¹⁸被囚的同享安寧；聽不見督工的聲音；

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

¹⁹老少尊卑都在那裡，奴僕脫離主人的轄制。

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

²⁰厭惡生存為甚麼有光明賜給勞碌的人，有生命賜給苦命的人呢？

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

²¹他們想死卻死不了，找死勝於找寶藏；

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

²²他們找到墳墓就高興，非常歡喜快樂。

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

²³為甚麼有生命賜給前途茫茫，又被　神四面圍困的人呢？

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

²⁴我以歎息代替食物，我唉哼的聲音如水湧出。

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

²⁵我所懼怕的臨到我，我所驚恐的向我而來。

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

²⁶我不得安逸，不得安靜，也不得安息，卻有攪擾來到。”