第1段 | |
中文: | 我厌烦我的性命,必由着自己述说我的哀情。因心里苦恼,我要说话。 |
英文: | My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
第2段 | |
中文: | 对神说,不要定我有罪。要指示我,你为何与我争辩。 |
英文: | I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. |
第3段 | |
中文: | 你手所造的,你又欺压,又藐视,却光照恶人的计谋。这事你以为美吗。 |
英文: | Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? |
第4段 | |
中文: | 你的眼岂是肉眼,你查看岂像人查看吗。 |
英文: | Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? |
第5段 | |
中文: | 你的日子岂像人的日子,你的年岁岂像人的年岁。 |
英文: | Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, |
第6段 | |
中文: | 就追问我的罪孽,寻察我的罪过吗。 |
英文: | That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? |
第7段 | |
中文: | 其实,你知道我没有罪恶,并没有能救我脱离你手的。 |
英文: | Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. |
第8段 | |
中文: | 你的手创造我,造就我的四肢百体,你还要毁灭我。 |
英文: | Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. |
第9段 | |
中文: | 求你记念制造我如抟泥一般,你还要使我归于麈土吗。 |
英文: | Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? |
第10段 | |
中文: | 你不是倒出我来好像奶,使我凝结如同奶饼吗。 |
英文: | Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? |
第11段 | |
中文: | 你以皮和肉为衣给我穿上,用骨与筋把我全体联络。 |
英文: | Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. |
第12段 | |
中文: | 你将生命和慈爱赐给我,你也眷顾保全我的心灵。 |
英文: | Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. |
第13段 | |
中文: | 然而,你待我的这些事早已藏在你心里,我知道你久有此意。 |
英文: | And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee. |
第14段 | |
中文: | 我若犯罪,你就察看我,并不赦免我的罪孽。 |
英文: | If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. |
第15段 | |
中文: | 我若行恶,便有了祸。我若为义,也不敢抬头。正是满心羞愧,眼见我的苦情。 |
英文: | If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; |
第16段 | |
中文: | 我若昂首自得,你就追捕我如狮子,又在我身上显出奇能。 |
英文: | For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. |
第17段 | |
中文: | 你重立见证攻击我,向我加增恼怒,如军兵更换着攻击我。 |
英文: | Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. |
第18段 | |
中文: | 你为何使我出母胎呢。不如我当时气绝,无人得见我。 |
英文: | Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! |
第19段 | |
中文: | 这样,就如没有我一般,一出母胎就被送入坟墓。 |
英文: | I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. |
第20段 | |
中文: | 我的日子不是甚少吗。求你停手宽容我,叫我在往而不返之先, |
英文: | Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, |
第21段 | |
中文: | 就是往黑暗,和死荫之地以先,可以稍得畅快。 |
英文: | Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; |
第22段 | |
中文: | 那地甚是幽暗,是死荫混沌之地。那里的光好像幽暗。 |
英文: | A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. |