¹“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

¹人生在世多有愁苦

²As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

²正如仆人切慕暮影，又像雇工盼望工价。

³so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

³照样，我有空虚的岁月，也有劳苦的黑夜为我派定。

⁴When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

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。

⁵My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

⁵我的肉体以虫子和土块为衣裳，我的皮肤裂开又流脓。

⁶My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

⁶我过的日子比梭还要快，在毫无盼望之中而结束。

⁷Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

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。

⁸The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

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。

⁹As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. shall come up no more.

⁹云彩怎样消散逝去，照样，人下阴间也不再上来。

¹⁰He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

¹⁰他不再回自己的家，故乡再也不认识他。

¹¹“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

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。

¹²Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

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？

¹³When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;’

¹³我若说：‘我的床必安慰我，我的榻必减轻我的苦情’，

¹⁴then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:

¹⁴你就用梦惊扰我，又用异象惊吓我，

¹⁵so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

¹⁵以致我宁可窒息而死，也不肯保留我这一身的骨头。

¹⁶I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

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。

¹⁷What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

¹⁷人算什么，你竟看他为大，又把他放在心上；

¹⁸that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

¹⁸每天早晨你都鉴察他，每时每刻你也试验他。

¹⁹How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

¹⁹你到什么时候才转眼不看我，任凭我咽下唾沫呢？

²⁰If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

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？

²¹Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.”

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。”