约伯记 3
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
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
New King James Version
Job Deplores His Birth
3 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job [a]spoke, and said:
3 “May(A) the day perish on which I was born,
And the night in which it was said,
‘A male child is conceived.’
4 May that day be darkness;
May God above not seek it,
Nor the light shine upon it.
5 May darkness and (B)the shadow of death claim it;
May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, may darkness seize it;
May it not [b]rejoice among the days of the year,
May it not come into the number of the months.
7 Oh, may that night be barren!
May no joyful shout come into it!
8 May those curse it who curse the day,
Those (C)who are ready to arouse Leviathan.
9 May the stars of its morning be dark;
May it look for light, but have none,
And not see the [c]dawning of the day;
10 Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
11 “Why(D) did I not die at birth?
Why did I not [d]perish when I came from the womb?
12 (E)Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet,
I would have been asleep;
Then I would have been at rest
14 With kings and counselors of the earth,
Who (F)built ruins for themselves,
15 Or with princes who had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver;
16 Or why was I not hidden (G)like a stillborn child,
Like infants who never saw light?
17 There the wicked cease from troubling,
And there the [e]weary are at (H)rest.
18 There the prisoners [f]rest together;
(I)They do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
19 The small and great are there,
And the servant is free from his master.
20 “Why(J) is light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the (K)bitter of soul,
21 Who (L)long[g] for death, but it does not come,
And search for it more than (M)hidden treasures;
22 Who rejoice exceedingly,
And are glad when they can find the (N)grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
(O)And whom God has hedged in?
24 For my sighing comes before [h]I eat,
And my groanings pour out like water.
25 For the thing I greatly (P)feared has come upon me,
And what I dreaded has happened to me.
26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
I have no rest, for trouble comes.”
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