1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. 2 Job answered:
3 "Let the day perish in which I was born,
the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
4 Let that day be darkness.
Don’t let God from above seek for it,
neither let the light shine on it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own.
Let a cloud dwell on it.
Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it.
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year.
Let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Behold, let that night be barren.
Let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it who curse the day,
who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark.
Let it look for light, but have none,
neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
10 because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11 "Why didn’t I die from the womb?
Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12 Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet.
I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
14 with kings and counselors of the earth,
who built up waste places for themselves;
15 or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver;
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
as infants who never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling.
There the weary are at rest.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together.
They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 The small and the great are there.
The servant is free from his master.
20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery,
life to the bitter in soul,
21 who long for death, but it doesn’t come;
and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22 who rejoice exceedingly,
and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?
24 For my sighing comes before I eat.
My groanings are poured out like water.
25 For the thing which I fear comes on me,
that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest;
but trouble comes."
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。"