1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 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 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. 8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. 9 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 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. 18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. 25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
1 后来， 约伯开口咒诅自己的生日。
2 约伯说：
3 "愿我生的那日泯灭， 人说怀男胎的那夜灭没。
4 愿那日变成黑暗， 愿 神不从上面眷顾， 愿光明不照耀在其上。
5 愿黑暗与死荫索讨那日， 愿密云停留在上面， 愿白天的昏黑惊吓它。
6 愿那夜被幽暗夺去， 不让它连在平日之中， 列入月数之内。
7 愿那夜没有生育， 也没有欢乐的声音。
8 那些咒诅日子、善于惹动海怪的， 愿他们咒诅那夜。
9 愿那夜黎明的星星变成黑暗， 愿那夜等候发光却不亮， 见不到清晨的曙光。
10 因为那夜没有把我母胎的门关闭， 也没有把苦难隐藏， 使我看不见。
11 我为什么不一离母胎就死去？我为什么不一出母腹就断气？
12 为什么有膝承接我？为什么有乳哺养我？
13 不然， 我早已躺下安息，
14 与世上那些为自己建造陵墓的君王和谋士同睡，
15 或与那些拥有黄金， 房屋装满银子的王侯同眠。
16 我为什么不像暗中流产的胎， 未见天日的婴孩， 归于无有呢？
17 在那里， 恶人止息搅扰， 筋疲力尽的得安息；
18 被囚的同享安宁； 听不见督工的声音；
19 老少尊卑都在那里， 奴仆脱离主人的辖制。
20 为什么有光明赐给劳碌的人， 有生命赐给苦命的人呢？
21 他们想死却死不了， 找死胜于找宝藏；
22 他们找到坟墓就高兴， 非常欢喜快乐。
23 为什么有生命赐给前途茫茫， 又被 神四面围困的人呢？
24 我以叹息代替食物， 我唉哼的声音如水涌出。
25 我所惧怕的临到我， 我所惊恐的向我而来。
26 我不得安逸， 不得安静， 也不得安息， 却有搅扰来到。"