| | 1 | 约伯接着说，
And Job continued his discourse: | |
| | 2 | 神夺去我的理，全能者使我心中愁苦。我指着永生的神起誓。
"As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made me taste bitterness of soul, | |
| | 3 | 我的生命尚在我里面，神所赐呼吸之气，仍在我的鼻孔内。
as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils, | |
| | 4 | 我的嘴决不说非义之言，我的舌也不说诡诈之语。
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will utter no deceit. | |
| | 5 | 我断不以你们为是，我至死必不以自己为不正。
I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity. | |
| | 6 | 我持定我的义，必不放松。在世的日子，我心必不责备我。
I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live. | |
| | 7 | 愿我的仇敌如恶人一样。愿那起来攻击我的，如不义之人一般。
"May my enemies be like the wicked, my adversaries like the unjust! | |
| | 8 | 不敬虔的人虽然得利，神夺取其命的时候，还有什么指望呢？
For what hope has the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? | |
| | 9 | 患难临到他，神岂能听他的呼求？
Does God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him? | |
| | 10 | 他岂以全能者为乐，随时求告神呢？
Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times? | |
| | 11 | 神的作为，我要指教你们。全能者所行的，我也不隐瞒。
"I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal. | |
| | 12 | 你们自己也都见过，为何全然变为虚妄呢？
You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk? | |
| | 13 | 神为恶人所定的分，强暴人从全能者所得的报（报原文作产业）乃是这样。
"Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty: | |
| | 14 | 倘或他的儿女增多，还是被刀所杀。他的子孙必不得饱食。
However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat. | |
| | 15 | 他所遗留的人必死而埋葬，他的寡妇也不哀哭。
The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them. | |
| | 16 | 他虽积蓄银子如尘沙，预备衣服如泥土。
Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay, | |
| | 17 | 他只管预备，义人却要穿上。他的银子，无辜的人要分取。
what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver. | |
| | 18 | 他建造房屋如虫做窝，又如守望者所搭的棚。
The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman. | |
| | 19 | 他虽富足躺卧，却不得收殓，转眼之间就不在了。
He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone. | |
| | 20 | 惊恐如波涛将他追上。暴风在夜间将他刮去。
Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night. | |
| | 21 | 东风把他飘去，又刮他离开本处。
The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. | |
| | 22 | 神要向他射箭，并不留情。他恨不得逃脱神的手。
It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power. | |
| | 23 | 人要向他拍掌，并要发叱声，使他离开本处。
It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place. | |
