Job

此後，約伯開口咒詛自己的生日，

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

說：

And Job spake, and said, {spake: Heb. answered}

願我生的那日和說懷了男胎的那夜都滅沒。

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

願那日變為黑暗；願神不從上面尋找他；願亮光不照於其上。

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

願黑暗和死蔭索取那日；願密雲停在其上；願日蝕恐嚇他。

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. {stain: or, challenge} {let the...: or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day}

願那夜被幽暗奪取，不在年中的日子同樂，也不入月中的數目。

As {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. {let it not be...: or, let it not rejoice among the days}

願那夜沒有生育，其間也沒有歡樂的聲音。

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

願那咒詛日子且能惹動鱷魚的咒詛那夜。

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. {their...: or, leviathan}

願那夜黎明的星宿變為黑暗，盼亮卻不亮，也不見早晨的光線（原文是眼皮）；

Let 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: {the dawning...: Heb. the eyelids of the morning}

因沒有把懷我胎的門關閉，也沒有將患難對我的眼隱藏。

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

我為何不出母胎而死？為何不出母腹絕氣？

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

為何有膝接收我？為何有奶哺養我？

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

不然，我就早已躺臥安睡，

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

和地上為自己重造荒邱的君王、謀士，

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

或與有金子、將銀子裝滿了房屋的王子一同安息；

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

或像隱而未現、不到期而落的胎，歸於無有，如同未見光的嬰孩。

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

在那裡惡人止息攪擾，困乏人得享安息，

There the wicked cease {from} troubling; and there the weary be at rest. {weary: Heb. wearied in strength}

被囚的人同得安逸，不聽見督工的聲音。

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

大小都在那裡；奴僕脫離主人的轄制。

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

受患難的人為何有光賜給他呢？心中愁苦的人為何有生命賜給他呢？

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

他們切望死，卻不得死；求死，勝於求隱藏的珍寶。

Which long for death, but it {cometh} not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; {long: Heb. wait}

他們尋見墳墓就快樂，極其歡喜。

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

人的道路既然遮隱，神又把他四面圍困，為何有光賜給他呢？

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

我未曾吃飯就發出歎息；我唉哼的聲音湧出如水。

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}

因我所恐懼的臨到我身，我所懼怕的迎我而來。

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. {the thing...: Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me}

我不得安逸，不得平靜，也不得安息，卻有患難來到。

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