Chapter 10

¹'I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹我厭煩我的性命，必由著自己述說我的哀情；因心裡苦惱，我要說話，

²'I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me; Let me know why You contend with me.

²對神說：不要定我有罪，要指示我，你為何與我爭辯？

³'Is it right for You indeed to oppress, To reject the labor of Your hands, And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?

³你手所造的，你又欺壓，又藐視，卻光照惡人的計謀。這事你以為美麼？

⁴'Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You see as a man sees?

⁴你的眼豈是肉眼？你查看豈像人查看麼？

⁵'Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Or Your years as man's years,

⁵你的日子豈像人的日子，你的年歲豈像人的年歲，

⁶That You should seek for my guilt And search after my sin?

⁶就追問我的罪孽，尋察我的罪過麼？

⁷'According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.

⁷其實，你知道我沒有罪惡，並沒有能救我脫離你手的。

⁸'Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, And would You destroy me?

⁸你的手創造我，造就我的四肢百體，你還要毀滅我。

⁹'Remember now, that You have made me as clay; And would You turn me into dust again?

⁹求你記念─製造我如摶泥一般，你還要使我歸於塵土麼？

¹⁰'Did You not pour me out like milk And curdle me like cheese;

¹⁰你不是倒出我來好像奶，使我凝結如同奶餅麼？

¹¹Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?

¹¹你以皮和肉為衣給我穿上，用骨與筋把我全體聯絡。

¹²'You have granted me life and lovingkindness; And Your care has preserved my spirit.

¹²你將生命和慈愛賜給我；你也眷顧保全我的心靈。

¹³'Yet these things You have concealed in Your heart; I know that this is within You:

¹³然而，你待我的這些事早已藏在你心裡；我知道你久有此意。

¹⁴If I sin, then You would take note of me, And would not acquit me of my guilt.

¹⁴我若犯罪，你就察看我，並不赦免我的罪孽。

¹⁵'If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. [I am] sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.

¹⁵我若行惡，便有了禍；我若為義，也不敢抬頭，正是滿心羞愧，眼見我的苦情。

¹⁶'Should [my head] be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your power against me.

¹⁶我若昂首自得，你就追捕我如獅子，又在我身上顯出奇能。

¹⁷'You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me.

¹⁷你重立見證攻擊我，向我加增惱怒，如軍兵更換著攻擊我。

¹⁸'Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

¹⁸你為何使我出母胎呢？不如我當時氣絕，無人得見我；

¹⁹'I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.'

¹⁹這樣，就如沒有我一般，一出母胎就被送入墳墓。

²⁰'Would He not let my few days alone? Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer

²⁰我的日子不是甚少麼？求你停手寬容我，叫我在往而不返之先─就是往黑暗和死蔭之地以先─可以稍得暢快。

²¹Before I go-- and I shall not return-- To the land of darkness and deep shadow,

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²²The land of utter gloom as darkness [itself], Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness.'

²²那地甚是幽暗，是死蔭混沌之地；那裡的光好像幽暗。