约伯记 3

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约伯自诅其诞辰

3 此后，约伯开口咒诅自己的生日， ²说： ³“愿我生的那日和说怀了男胎的那夜都灭没。 ⁴愿那日变为黑暗，愿神不从上面寻找它，愿亮光不照于其上。 ⁵愿黑暗和死荫索取那日，愿密云停在其上，愿日食恐吓它。 ⁶愿那夜被幽暗夺取，不在年中的日子同乐，也不入月中的数目。 ⁷愿那夜没有生育，其间也没有欢乐的声音。 ⁸愿那咒诅日子且能惹动鳄鱼的，咒诅那夜。 ⁹愿那夜黎明的星宿变为黑暗，盼亮却不亮，也不见早晨的光线^[a]。 ¹⁰因没有把怀我胎的门关闭，也没有将患难对我的眼隐藏。 ¹¹我为何不出母胎而死？为何不出母腹绝气？ ¹²为何有膝接收我？为何有奶哺养我？ ¹³不然，我就早已躺卧安睡， ¹⁴和地上为自己重造荒丘的君王、谋士， ¹⁵或与有金子、将银子装满了房屋的王子一同安息； ¹⁶或像隐而未现、不到期而落的胎，归于无有，如同未见光的婴孩。 ¹⁷在那里，恶人止息搅扰，困乏人得享安息； ¹⁸被囚的人同得安逸，不听见督工的声音。 ¹⁹大小都在那里，奴仆脱离主人的辖制。

自言死为美

²⁰“受患难的人，为何有光赐给他呢？心中愁苦的人，为何有生命赐给他呢？ ²¹他们切望死却不得死，求死胜于求隐藏的珍宝。 ²²他们寻见坟墓就快乐，极其欢喜。 ²³人的道路既然遮隐，神又把他四面围困，为何有光赐给他呢？ ²⁴我未曾吃饭就发出叹息，我唉哼的声音涌出如水。 ²⁵因我所恐惧的临到我身，我所惧怕的迎我而来。 ²⁶我不得安逸，不得平静，也不得安息，却有患难来到。”

Footnotes

约伯记 3:9 “光线”原文作“眼皮”。

Job 3

Complete Jewish Bible

3 ⁽²⁾Iyov said,

²⁽³⁾“Perish the day I was born
and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’
³⁽⁴⁾May that day be darkness,
may God on high not seek it,
may no light shine on it,
⁴⁽⁵⁾may gloom dark as death defile it,
may clouds settle on it,
may it be terrified by its own blackness.

⁵⁽⁶⁾“As for that night, may thick darkness seize it,
may it not be joined to the days of the year,
may it not be numbered among the months;
⁶⁽⁷⁾may that night be desolate,
may no cry of joy be heard in it;
⁷⁽⁸⁾may those who curse days curse it,
those who[se curses] could rouse Livyatan;
⁸⁽⁹⁾may the stars of its twilight be dark,
may it look for light but get none,
may it never see the shimmer of dawn —
⁹⁽¹⁰⁾because it didn’t shut the doors of the womb I was in
and shield my eyes from trouble.

¹⁰⁽¹¹⁾“If I had been stillborn,
if I had died at birth,
¹¹⁽¹²⁾had there been no knees to receive me
or breasts for me to suck.
¹²⁽¹³⁾Then I would be lying still and in peace,
I would have slept and been at rest,
¹³⁽¹⁴⁾along with kings and their earthly advisers,
who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
¹⁴⁽¹⁵⁾or with princes who had [plenty of] gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
¹⁵⁽¹⁶⁾Or I could have been like a hidden, miscarried
child that never saw light.

¹⁶⁽¹⁷⁾“There the wicked cease their raging,
there the weary are at rest,
¹⁷⁽¹⁸⁾prisoners live at peace together
without hearing a taskmaster’s yells.
¹⁸⁽¹⁹⁾Great and small alike are there,
and the slave is free of his master.

¹⁹⁽²⁰⁾“So why must light be given to the miserable
and life to the bitter in spirit?
²⁰⁽²¹⁾They long for death, but it never comes;
they search for it more than for buried treasure;
²¹⁽²²⁾when at last they find the grave,
they are so happy they shout for joy.
²²⁽²³⁾[Why give light] to a man who wanders blindly,
whom God shuts in on every side?

²³⁽²⁴⁾“My sighing serves in place of my food,
and my groans pour out in a torrent;
²⁴⁽²⁵⁾for the thing I feared has overwhelmed me,
what I dreaded has happened to me.
²⁵⁽²⁶⁾I have no peace, no quiet, no rest;
and anguish keeps coming.”

Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified) (CUVMPS)

Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

约伯记 3 Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)

约伯自诅其诞辰

自言死为美

Footnotes

Job 3 Complete Jewish Bible

约伯记 3

Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)

Job 3

Complete Jewish Bible