1 约伯回答说： 2 "直到今日我还有苦情要申诉， 我虽然叹息， 他的手仍然沉重。 3 但愿我知道怎样能寻见 神， 能到他的台前来。 4 好让我在他面前呈上我的案件， 满口辩论向他申诉； 5 知道他要回答我的话， 明白他对我说什么。 6 他会以大能与我相争吗？必不会这样， 他必关怀我。 7 在他那里正直人可以与他彼此辩论， 这样， 我就必永远摆脱那审判我的。 8 可是我往前走， 他不在那里； 我若往后退， 我也不能见他。 9 他在左边行事， 我却见不到； 他在右边隐藏， 我却看不见。 10 可是他知道我所行的道路， 他试炼我以后， 我必像精金出现。 11 我的脚紧随他的脚步， 我谨守他的道， 并不偏离。 12 他嘴唇的命令我没有离弃， 我珍藏他口中的言语在我的怀里， 胜过我需用的饮食。 13 但是他既已定意， 谁能使他转意呢？他心里所愿的， 就行出来。 14 他为我所定的， 他必成全， 这类的事情， 他还有许多。 15 因此我在他面前惊惶， 一想到这事， 我就惧怕他。 16 神使我心里胆怯， 全能者使我惊惶， 17 因为我在黑暗面前并没有被消灭， 也不怕幽暗遮盖着我的脸。"

1 And Job answereth and saith: --2 Also -- to-day [is] my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.3 O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,4 I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill [with] arguments.5 I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.6 In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth [it] in me.7 There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.8 Lo, forward I go -- and He is not, And backward -- and I perceive him not.9 [To] the left in His working -- and I see not, He is covered [on] the right, and I behold not.10 For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me -- as gold I go forth.11 On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,12 The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.13 And He [is] in one [mind], And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired -- and He doth [it].14 For He doth complete my portion, And many such things [are] with Him.15 Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.16 And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath troubled me.17 For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.