¹Tetapi kini aku diejek oleh orang yang lebih muda. Dahulu ayah mereka kupandang terlalu hina untuk menjaga dombaku bersama anjing gembala.

¹“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

²Bagiku mereka tidak berguna karena sudah kehabisan tenaga.

²Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

³Mereka lapar dan menderita sekali, sehingga makan akar kering di gurun yang sunyi.

³They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

⁴Mereka mencabut belukar di padang belantara lalu memakan baik daun maupun akarnya.

⁴They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.

⁵Mereka diusir dengan tengking seperti orang mengusir maling.

⁵They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;

⁶Mereka tinggal di dalam gua-gua; lubang-lubang di dinding gunung menjadi rumah mereka.

⁶So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

⁷Di rimba mereka meraung-raung seperti binatang, berkelompok di bawah semak belukar di hutan.

⁷Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.

⁸Mereka tak bernama dan tak berharga, orang-orang yang sudah dihalau dari negerinya.

⁸They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.

⁹Sekarang mereka datang dan aku ditertawakannya; bagi mereka, aku ini lelucon belaka.

⁹“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

¹⁰Aku dipandang oleh mereka hina dan keji, bahkan mukaku mereka ludahi.

¹⁰They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

¹¹Karena Allah membuat aku lemah tidak berdaya, mereka melampiaskan amukan mereka.

¹¹For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

¹²Gerombolan itu menyerang aku dari depan, dan kejatuhanku mereka rencanakan.

¹²On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

¹³Mereka memotong jalanku untuk membinasakan aku; tak seorang pun menghalangi ketika mereka menyerbu.

¹³They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone’s help.

¹⁴Bagaikan banjir mereka dobrak tembok pertahananku; beramai-ramai mereka datang menindih tubuhku.

¹⁴As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

¹⁵Kedahsyatan meliputi diriku; bagaikan hembusan angin, harga diriku berlalu; bagaikan awan lewat, hilanglah kebahagiaanku.

¹⁵Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

¹⁶Sekarang hampir matilah aku; tak ada keringanan bagi deritaku.

¹⁶“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

¹⁷Pada waktu malam semua tulangku nyeri; rasa sakit yang menusuk tak kunjung berhenti.

¹⁷In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

¹⁸Allah mencengkeram aku pada leher bajuku sehingga pakaianku menggelambir pada tubuhku.

¹⁸By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

¹⁹Ke dalam lumpur aku dihempaskan-Nya, aku menjadi seperti sampah saja!

¹⁹He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

²⁰Aku berseru kepada-Mu, ya Allah, Kau tak memberi jawaban; bila aku berdoa, Kau tak memperhatikan.

²⁰I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

²¹Engkau berlaku kejam terhadapku, Kautindas aku dengan seluruh kekuatan-Mu.

²¹You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

²²Engkau membiarkan angin melayangkan aku; dalam angin ribut Kauombang-ambingkan diriku.

²²You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

²³Aku tahu, Kaubawa aku kepada alam kematian, tempat semua yang hidup dikumpulkan.

²³For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

²⁴Mengapa Kau menyerang orang yang celaka, yang tak dapat berbuat apa pun kecuali mohon iba?

²⁴“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

²⁵Bukankah aku menangis bersama orang yang kesusahan, dan mengasihani orang yang berkekurangan?

²⁵Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

²⁶Aku mengharapkan bahagia dan terang, tapi kesukaran dan kegelapanlah yang datang.

²⁶When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

²⁷Aku terkoyak oleh duka dan nestapa; hari demi hari makin banyak yang kuderita.

²⁷My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

²⁸Di dalam kelam, tanpa cahaya, aku berkeliaran; aku berdiri di muka umum, minta pertolongan.

²⁸I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

²⁹Suaraku sedih penuh iba seperti tangis serigala dan burung unta.

²⁹I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

³⁰Kulitku menjadi hitam; tubuhku terbakar oleh demam.

³⁰My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

³¹Dahulu kudengar musik gembira, kini hanya ratapan tangis belaka.

³¹Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.