1 And Job made answer and said,
2 Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
3 May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
4 It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:
5 I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
6 If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.
11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
18 O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!
19 Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.
20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
1 约伯回答说：
2 "像这样的话， 我听了很多； 你们都是叫人愁烦的安慰者。
3 虚空的言语， 有穷尽吗？或有什么惹你答个不休的呢？
4 你们若处在我的景况， 我也能像你们那样说话， 我也能砌辞攻击你们， 并且能向你们摇头。
5 我能用口鼓励你们， 我嘴唇的安慰， 能缓和你们的痛苦。
6 我若说话， 痛苦仍不消解， 我若闭口不说， 痛苦也不离开我。
7 现在 神使我困倦， ‘你蹂躏了我的全家，
8 又把我捆绑起来。’这就作为证据； 我身体的枯瘦也当面作证反对我。
9 他的怒气撕裂我， 攻击我； 他向我咬牙切齿， 我的敌人以锐利的眼光看着我。
10 他们向我大大张嘴， 以蔑视的态度打我的脸颊， 联合一起攻击我。
11 神把我交给不义的人， 把我丢在恶人的手中。
12 我本来安逸， 他却把我压碎； 掐着我的颈项， 把我摔碎； 又把我当作他的箭靶。
13 他的弓箭手四面包围我， 他剖开我的腰子， 全不顾惜， 把我的胆倾倒在地上。
14 他把我破伤， 在破口上又加破伤， 如勇士一般向我直冲。
15 我把麻布缝在我的皮肤上， 把我的角插入尘土中。
16 我的脸因哭泣而发红， 在我的眼皮上满是黑影。
17 然而在我的手中没有强暴， 我的祷告也是清洁的。
18 地啊， 不要遮盖我的血； 不要让我的哀求有停留的地方。
19 现今， 在天上有我的见证， 在高天之上， 有我的证人。
20 讥笑我的， 就是我的朋友， 我的眼向 神流泪。
21 但愿人可以为人与 神分辩， 正如世人为朋友辩白一样。
22 因为我的年数将尽， 我快要走上那条一去不返的路。"