| | 1 | 约伯回答说，
Then Job replied: | |
| | 2 | 这样的话我听了许多。你们安慰人，反叫人愁烦。
"I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all! | |
| | 3 | 虚空的言语有穷尽吗？有什么话惹动你回答呢？
Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing? | |
| | 4 | 我也能说你们那样的话。你们若处在我的境遇，我也会联络言语攻击你们，又能向你们摇头。
I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you. | |
| | 5 | 但我必用口坚固你们，用嘴消解你们的忧愁。
But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief. | |
| | 6 | 我虽说话，忧愁仍不得消解。我虽停住不说，忧愁就离开我吗？
"Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away. | |
| | 7 | 但现在神使我困倦，使亲友远离我。
Surely, O God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household. | |
| | 8 | 又抓住我，作见证攻击我。我身体的枯瘦，也当面见证我的不是。
You have bound me--and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me. | |
| | 9 | 主发怒撕裂我，逼迫我，向我切齿。我的敌人怒目看我。
God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes. | |
| | 10 | 他们向我开口，打我的脸羞辱我，聚会攻击我。
Men open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me. | |
| | 11 | 神把我交给不敬虔的人，把我扔到恶人的手中。
God has turned me over to evil men and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked. | |
| | 12 | 我素来安逸，他折断我，掐住我的颈项，把我摔碎。又立我为他的箭靶子。
All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target; | |
| | 13 | 他的弓箭手四面围绕我。他破裂我的肺腑，并不留情，把我的胆倾倒在地上，
his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground. | |
| | 14 | 将我破裂又破裂，如同勇士向我直闯。
Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior. | |
| | 15 | 我缝麻布在我皮肤上，把我的角放在尘土中。
"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust. | |
| | 16 | 我的脸因哭泣发紫，在我的眼皮上有死荫。
My face is red with weeping, deep shadows ring my eyes; | |
| | 17 | 我的手中却无强暴。我的祈祷也是清洁。
yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure. | |
| | 18 | 地阿，不要遮盖我的血。不要阻挡我的哀求。
"O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest! | |
| | 19 | 现今，在天有我的见证，在上有我的中保。
Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high. | |
| | 20 | 我的朋友讥诮我，我却向神眼泪汪汪。
My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God; | |
| | 21 | 愿人得与神辩白，如同人与朋友辩白一样。
on behalf of a man he pleads with God as a man pleads for his friend. | |
| | 22 | 因为再过几年，我必走那往而不返之路。
"Only a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return. | |
