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。"
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 I have heard many such things:
Miserable comforters are ye all.
3 Shall vain words have an end?
Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
4 I also could speak as ye do;
If your soul were in my soul’s stead,
I could join words together against you,
And shake my head at you.
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief.
6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged;
And though I forbear, what am I eased?
7 But now he hath made me weary:
Thou hast made desolate all my company.
8 And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me:
And my leanness riseth up against me,
It testifieth to my face.
9 He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me;
He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth:
Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth;
They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully:
They gather themselves together against me.
11 God delivereth me to the ungodly,
And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he brake me asunder;
Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces:
He hath also set me up for his mark.
13 His archers compass me round about;
He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare;
He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach;
He runneth upon me like a giant.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,
And have laid my horn in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping,
And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 Although there is no violence in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood,
And let my cry have no resting-place.
19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
And he that voucheth for me is on high.
20 My friends scoff at me:
But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
21 That he would maintain the right of a man with God,
And of a son of man with his neighbor!
22 For when a few years are come,
I shall go the way whence I shall not return.