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。"