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约伯自诅其诞辰

此后,约伯开口咒诅自己的生日, 说: “愿我生的那日和说怀了男胎的那夜都灭没。 愿那日变为黑暗,愿神不从上面寻找它,愿亮光不照于其上。 愿黑暗和死荫索取那日,愿密云停在其上,愿日食恐吓它。 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。 愿那夜没有生育,其间也没有欢乐的声音。 愿那咒诅日子且能惹动鳄鱼的,咒诅那夜。 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

  1. 约伯记 3:9 “光线”原文作“眼皮”。

約伯咒詛自己

後來,約伯開口咒詛自己的生日, 說:

「願我出生的那日和懷我的那夜滅沒。
願那日一片黑暗,
被天上的上帝遺忘,
沒有陽光照耀。
願那日被黑暗和陰影籠罩,
被密雲覆蓋,
被陰暗淹沒。
願那夜被幽暗吞噬,
不列在年日中,
不算在歲月裡。
願那夜無人生育,
毫無快樂之聲。
願那些咒詛白日、
能惹動海怪的人,
咒詛那夜。
願那夜的晨星昏暗,
等不到晨光的出現,
看不見黎明的眼簾。
10 因為那夜沒有關閉我母胎的門,
以致讓我看見患難。

11 「為何我不出生時就夭折,
出母胎時就斷氣?
12 為何要把我抱在膝上,
用乳汁哺育我?
13 不然我早已安然躺臥、長眠安息,
14 與世上的君王和謀臣作伴——他們建造的宮殿已荒廢,
15 與房屋堆滿金銀的王侯同眠。
16 為何我沒有像未見天日就流產的嬰兒一樣消逝?
17 那裡,惡人不再攪擾,
疲憊者得到安息,
18 被囚者得到安寧,
聽不見監工的斥責。
19 尊貴與卑賤的人都在那裡,
奴僕不再受主人的轄制。

20 「為何賜光給受苦的人,
賜生命給心靈痛苦的人?
21 他們等候死亡卻等不到,
他們求死勝於求寶藏。
22 他們歸入墳墓時非常快樂,
欣喜若狂。
23 為何賜生命給前路渺茫、
被上帝圍困的人?
24 我以歎息為食,
呻吟如水湧流。
25 我害怕的事發生了,
我恐懼的事來臨了。
26 我不得安寧,
不得平靜,
不得安息,
只有苦難。」

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

And Job spake, and said,

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.