1 And Job answered and said,
2 I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
3 Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
4 I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;
5 {But} I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage {your pain}.
6 If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
7 But now he hath made me weary; ...thou hast made desolate all my family;
8 Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.
9 His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; {as} mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.
10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.
11 *God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13 His arrows encompass 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 mighty man.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled 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 my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!
19 Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.
20 My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.
21 Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!
22 For years {few} in number shall pass, -and I shall go the way {whence} I shall not return.
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。"