| 第1段 | |
| 中文： | 但如今，比我年少的人戏笑我。其人之父我曾藐视，不肯安在看守我羊群的狗中。 |
| 英文： | But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. |
| 第2段 | |
| 中文： | 他们壮年的气力既已衰败，其手之力与我何益呢。 |
| 英文： | Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? |
| 第3段 | |
| 中文： | 他们因穷乏饥饿，身体枯瘦，在荒废凄凉的幽暗中龈乾燥之地。 |
| 英文： | For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. |
| 第4段 | |
| 中文： | 在草丛之中采咸草，罗腾（罗腾小树名松类）的根为他们的食物。 |
| 英文： | Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. |
| 第5段 | |
| 中文： | 他们从人中被赶出，人追喊他们如贼一般。 |
| 英文： | They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) |
| 第6段 | |
| 中文： | 以致他们住在荒谷之间，在地洞和岩穴中。 |
| 英文： | To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. |
| 第7段 | |
| 中文： | 在草丛中叫唤，在荆棘下聚集。 |
| 英文： | Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. |
| 第8段 | |
| 中文： | 这都是愚顽下贱人的儿女，他们被鞭打，赶出境外。 |
| 英文： | They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. |
| 第9段 | |
| 中文： | 现在这些人以我为歌曲，以我为笑谈。 |
| 英文： | And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. |
| 第10段 | |
| 中文： | 他们厌恶我，躲在旁边站着，不住地吐唾沫在我脸上。 |
| 英文： | They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. |
| 第11段 | |
| 中文： | 松开他们的绳索苦待我，在我面前脱去辔头。 |
| 英文： | Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. |
| 第12段 | |
| 中文： | 这等下流人在我右边起来，推开我的脚，筑成战路来攻击我。 |
| 英文： | Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. |
| 第13段 | |
| 中文： | 这些无人帮助的，毁坏我的道，加增我的灾。 |
| 英文： | They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. |
| 第14段 | |
| 中文： | 他们来如同闯进大破口，在毁坏之间滚在我身上。 |
| 英文： | They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. |
| 第15段 | |
| 中文： | 惊恐临到我，驱逐我的尊荣如风，我的福禄如云过去。 |
| 英文： | Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. |
| 第16段 | |
| 中文： | 现在我心极其悲伤。困苦的日子将我抓住。 |
| 英文： | And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. |
| 第17段 | |
| 中文： | 夜间，我里面的骨头刺我，疼痛不止，好像龈我。 |
| 英文： | My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. |
| 第18段 | |
| 中文： | 因神的大力，我的外衣污秽不堪，又如里衣的领子将我缠住。 |
| 英文： | By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. |
| 第19段 | |
| 中文： | 神把我扔在淤泥中，我就像尘土和炉灰一般。 |
| 英文： | He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. |
| 第20段 | |
| 中文： | 主阿，我呼求你，你不应允我。我站起来，你就定睛看我。 |
| 英文： | I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. |
| 第21段 | |
| 中文： | 你向我变心，待我残忍，又用大能追逼我。 |
| 英文： | Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. |
| 第22段 | |
| 中文： | 把我提在风中，使我驾风而行，又使我消灭在烈风中。 |
| 英文： | Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. |
| 第23段 | |
| 中文： | 我知道要使我临到死地，到那为众生所定的阴宅。 |
| 英文： | For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. |
| 第24段 | |
| 中文： | 然而，人仆倒岂不伸手。遇灾难岂不求救呢。 |
| 英文： | Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. |
| 第25段 | |
| 中文： | 人遭难，我岂不为他哭泣呢。人穷乏，我岂不为他忧愁呢。 |
| 英文： | Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? |
| 第26段 | |
| 中文： | 我仰望得好处，灾祸就到了。我等待光明，黑暗便来了。 |
| 英文： | When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. |
| 第27段 | |
| 中文： | 我心里烦扰不安，困苦的日子临到我身。 |
| 英文： | My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. |
| 第28段 | |
| 中文： | 我没有日光就哀哭行去（或作我面发黑并非因日晒）。我在会中站着求救。 |
| 英文： | I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. |
| 第29段 | |
| 中文： | 我与野狗为弟兄，与鸵鸟为同伴。 |
| 英文： | I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. |
| 第30段 | |
| 中文： | 我的皮肤黑而脱落，我的骨头因热烧焦。 |
| 英文： | My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. |
| 第31段 | |
| 中文： | 所以，我的琴音变为悲音，我的箫声变为哭声。 |
| 英文： | My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. |