1 Then Job answered and said, 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body. 18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. 19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. 20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. 22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. 28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? 29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
1 约伯回答说：
2 "你们叫我受苦要到几时呢？用话压碎我要到几时呢？
3 你们已经十次侮辱我， 你们苛刻地对我， 也不觉得羞耻。
4 即使我真的有过错， 由我承担好了。
5 你们若真的妄自尊大攻击我， 用我的羞辱来证明我的不是，
6 那么， 就知道是 神颠倒我的案件， 用他的网圈住我。
7 我呼叫‘强暴！ ’却没有回答； 我呼求， 却得不到公断。
8 神用篱笆拦阻我的道路， 使我不能经过； 他又使黑暗笼罩我的路。
9 他从我身上剥去我的荣耀， 又挪去我头上的冠冕。
10 他四面拆毁我， 我就离世， 他又把我这指望如树枝一样拔出来。
11 他的怒气向我发作， 把我看作他的敌人；
12 他的军队一起上来， 他们攻击我， 在我的帐棚周围安营。
13 他使我的族人远离我， 使我熟悉的人完全与我疏远。
14 我的亲戚离弃我， 我的朋友忘记我；
15 在我家中寄居的和我的婢女， 都把我当作外人， 我在他们的眼中是个外族人。
16 我呼唤仆人， 他不回答， 我得用口哀求他。
17 妻子厌恶我的气息， 同胞兄弟也厌弃我，
18 连小孩子也藐视我， 我一起来， 他们就讥笑我；
19 我所有的密友都憎恶我， 我所爱的人也向我反脸。
20 我的骨头紧贴着皮肉， 我只剩牙皮逃过大难。
21 我的朋友啊！ 求你们怜悯我， 怜悯我吧！ 因为 神的手击打了我。
22 你们为什么有如 神那样逼迫我？还不因吃我的肉感到满足吗？
23 但愿我的话现在都写下， 都刻在书简上，
24 用铁笔又用铅， 永远刻在磐石上。
25 我知道我的救赎主活着， 最后他必在地上兴起。
26 我的皮肉遭受毁坏以后， 这事就要发生， 我必在肉体以外得见 神。
27 我必见他在我身边， 我要亲眼见他， 并非外人， 我的心肠在我里面渴想极了。
28 你们若说： ‘惹事的根既然在他， 我们要怎样逼迫他呢？’
29 你们就当惧怕刀剑， 因为这些罪孽带来刀剑的惩罚， 好使你们知道有审判。"