1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
2 And Job answered and said,
3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
4 That day-let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
6 That night-let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
11 Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -come forth from the belly and expire?
12 Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore 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 build desolate places for themselves,
15 Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
18 The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
19 The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
21 Who long for death, and it {cometh} not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
22 Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? -
23 To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?
24 For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
25 For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
26 I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.
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。"