约伯回答说，
Then Job answered and said,

你们使我的魂受苦，用言语压碎我，要到几时呢？
How long will you grieve my soul / And crush me with your words?

你们这十次羞辱我；你们错待我也不以为耻。
These ten times you have reproached me; / You are not ashamed to deal wrongly with me.

如果我真有错，我的错由我来承担。
And be it that I have erred, / My error remains with me.

你们果然要向我夸大，以我的羞辱为证指责我，
If you indeed magnify yourselves against me / And use my reproach in argument against me,

就该知道是神颠倒我的案情，用祂的网罗围绕我。
Know then that God has subverted my cause / And compassed me about with His net.

看哪，我呼叫说，残暴！却得不到回应；我呼求，却得不到公断。
Indeed, I cry out, Violence! and I am not answered; / I call for help, and there is no justice.

祂用篱笆拦住我的道路，使我不得经过；又使黑暗笼罩我的路径。
He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; / And He has put darkness upon my paths.

祂从我身上剥去我的荣耀，摘去我头上的冠冕。
He has stripped my glory from me / And taken away the crown on my head.

祂四面拆毁我，我便离世；祂将我的指望好像树拔出来。
He has broken me all around, and I am gone; / And He has plucked up my hope like a tree.

祂的忿怒向我发作，以我为敌人。
He has also kindled His anger against me, / And in Himself He considers me as His adversary.

祂的军旅一起来到，修筑战路攻击我，在我帐棚的四围安营。
His troops come together / And cast up their highway against me / And encamp all around my tent.

祂使我的弟兄远离我，使认识我的，全然与我生疏。
He has removed my brothers far from me, / And those who know me are wholly estranged from me.

我的亲戚与我断绝，我的知友都忘记我。
My relatives have failed me, / And my acquaintances have forgotten me.

在我家寄居的，和我的使女，都以我为外人；我在他们眼中成了外邦人。
Those who sojourn in my house and my maids consider me as a stranger; / I am a foreigner in their eyes.

我呼唤仆人，他却不回答；我只得亲口向他恳求。
To my servant I call out, but he does not answer; / I entreat him with my mouth.

我的气息，我妻子厌恶；我的恳求，我同母的弟兄也憎嫌。
My breath is strange to my wife; / And my supplications, to the children of my mother's womb.

连小孩子也藐视我：我起来，他们就出言攻击我。
Even little children despise me: / I arise and they speak against me.

我的知友都憎恶我，我所爱的人向我翻脸。
All the men whom I take counsel with abhor me, / And those whom I love have turned against me.

我的骨头紧贴皮肉，我只剩牙皮逃脱了。
My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, / And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

我的朋友啊，可怜我，可怜我，因为神的手攻击我。
Pity me, pity me, O my friends; / For the hand of God has touched me.

你们为什么仿佛神逼迫我，吃我的肉还以为不足呢？
Why do you persecute me as God does / And are not satisfied with eating my flesh?

惟愿我的言语现在写上，都刻录在书上；
Oh, that my words were now written! / Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!

用铁笔镌刻，用铅灌在磐石上，直存到永远。
That with an iron pen and with lead / They were engraved in rock forever!

然而我知道我的救赎主活着，末了祂必站立在地上；
But I know that my Redeemer lives, / And at the last He will stand upon the earth;

我这皮肉灭绝之后，我必在肉体之外得见神。
And after this body of mine is destroyed, / Outside my flesh I will look on God,

我自己要见祂，要亲眼看祂，是我而不是别人。我的心肠在我里面渴想神，以至于耗尽。
Whom I, even I, will look on for myself, / And my eyes will see; I, and no other. / My inward parts that long for God are consumed within me.

你们若说，我们要怎样逼迫他？因为惹事的根乃在他身上；
If you say, How will we persecute him? / For the root of the matter is found in him;

你们就当惧怕刀剑，因为忿怒惹动刀剑的刑罚，使你们知道有审判。
Be fearful of the sword, / For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, / That you may know that there is a judgment.