1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. 5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. 7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. 8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. 9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. 12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. 15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

1 "我的气息将断， 我的日子快尽， 坟墓已为我预备好了。

2 真有嘲笑人的在我这里， 我的眼看着他们的悖逆。

3 愿你给我保证， 亲自为我作保； 除你以外有谁肯与我击掌作保呢？

4 你蒙蔽了他们的心， 不让他们明白； 因此你必不高举他们。

5 为分产业而控告朋友的， 他子孙的眼睛也要昏花。

6 他使我成为民众的笑柄， 人人都吐唾沫在我的脸上。

7 我的眼睛因忧愁而昏花， 我的身体瘦骨如柴。

8 正直人必因此惊讶， 要被激发起来， 攻击不敬虔的人。

9 义人必坚守自己的道路， 手洁的人要力上加力。

10 然而你们众人， 可以再来， 在你们中间我找不到一个有智慧的人。

11 我的日子已过， 我的谋算和我心中所想的都已粉碎。

12 他们把黑夜变为白昼， 因为黑暗的缘故， 他们就说： ‘光明临近了。’

13 我若等待阴间作我的家， 在黑暗中铺张我的床榻；

14 我若对深坑说： ‘你是我的父亲’， 对虫说： ‘你是我的母亲， 我的姊妹’，

15 那么， 我的指望在哪里呢？我的指望谁能看得见呢？

16 等到安息在尘土中的时候， 那些指望必下到阴间的门闩那里。"