約伯記 3
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1此後， 約伯 開口咒詛自己的 生 日，
1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2說：
2And Job spoke, and said:
3願我生的那日 和說懷了男胎的那夜都滅沒。
3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.'
4願那日變為黑暗； 願上帝不從上面尋找它； 願亮光不照於其上。
4Let that day be darkness; let not God inquire after it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5願黑暗和死蔭索取那日； 願密雲停在其上； 願日蝕恐嚇它。
5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
6願那夜被幽暗奪取， 不在年中的日子同樂， 也不入月中的數目。
6As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
7願那夜沒有生育， 其間也沒有歡樂的聲音。
7Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein.
8願那咒詛日子且能惹動鱷魚的 咒詛那夜。
8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9願那夜黎明的星宿變為黑暗， 盼亮卻不亮， 也不見早晨的光線；
9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning;
10因沒有把懷我胎的門關閉， 也沒有將患難對我的眼隱藏。
10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
11我為何不出 母 胎而死？ 為何不出 母 腹絕氣？
11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?
12為何有膝接收我？ 為何有奶哺養我？
12Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
13不然，我就早已躺臥安睡，
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest —
14和地上為自己重造荒邱的君王、謀士，
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15或與有金子、將銀子裝滿了房屋的王子 一同安息；
15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16或像隱而未現、不到期而落的胎， 歸於無有，如同未見光的嬰孩。
16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.
17在那裏惡人止息攪擾， 困乏人得享安息，
17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
18被囚的人同得安逸， 不聽見督工的聲音。
18There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
19大小都在那裏； 奴僕脫離主人的轄制。
19The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master.
20受患難的人為何有光賜給他呢？ 心中愁苦的人為何有生命賜給他呢？
20Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul —
21他們切望死，卻不得死； 求死，勝於求隱藏的珍寶。
21Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22他們尋見墳墓就快樂， 極其歡喜。
22Who rejoice unto exultation, and are glad, when they can find the grave? —
23人的道路既然遮隱， 上帝又把他四面圍困， 為何有光賜給 他呢？
23To a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24我未曾吃飯就發出歎息； 我唉哼 的聲音 湧出如水。
24For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.
25因我所恐懼的臨到我身， 我所懼怕的迎我而來。
25For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.
26我不得安逸，不得平靜， 也不得安息，卻有患難來到。
26I was not at ease, neither was I quiet, neither had I rest; but trouble came.
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