約伯記 第 3 章

¹此後，約伯開口咒詛自己的生日，After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

²說：And Job spake, and said,

³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.

⁴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.

⁵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.

⁶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.

⁷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.

⁸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.

⁹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:

¹⁰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.

¹¹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?

¹²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?

¹³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,

¹⁴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;

¹⁵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:

¹⁶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.

¹⁷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.

¹⁸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.

¹⁹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.

²⁰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;

²¹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;

²²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?

²³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?

²⁴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.

²⁵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.

²⁶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.