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。"
1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 And Job answered and said:
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born,
And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
4 Let that day be darkness;
Let not God from above seek for it,
Neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let 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 As 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 Lo, let that night be barren;
Let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day,
Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Let 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 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb?
Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
12 Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet;
I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth,
Who built up waste places for themselves;
15 Or with princes that had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver:
16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
As infants that never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling;
And there the weary are at rest.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
19 The small and the great are there:
And the servant is free from his master.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,
And life unto the bitter in soul;
21 Who long for death, but it cometh not,
And dig for it more than for hid 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 hid,
And whom God hath hedged in?
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat,
And my groanings are poured out like water.
25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me,
And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;
But trouble cometh.