约伯回答说，
Then Job answered and said,

这样的话我听了许多；你们安慰人，却都是叫人愁烦。
I have heard many such things; / Troubling comforters are you all.

虚空如风的言语有穷尽么？有什么惹动你这样回答呢？
Do words of wind have an end? / Or what has provoked you that you so respond?

我也能像你们这样说话，如果你们的心境像我现在的心境，我也会编撰言语攻击你们，又向你们摇头。
I also could speak like you, / If your soul were in my soul's stead; / I could join my words together against you / And shake my head at you.

我能用口坚固你们，我动嘴唇，就能消减你们的痛苦。
I could strengthen you with my mouth, / And the movement of my lips would mitigate your pain.

我若说话，痛苦仍不得消减；我若忍住不说，有多少痛苦会离开我呢？
If I speak, my pain is not mitigated; / And if I forbear, how much departs from me?

但现在神使我困乏，使我的亲友都离弃我；
But now He has worn me out; / You have desolated all my company.

又抓住我，作见证攻击我；我身体的枯瘦也当面见证我的不是。
And You have seized me; it is a testimony against me; / And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.

主发怒撕裂我，敌对我，向我咬牙切齿。我的敌人以锐利的眼看着我。
In His wrath He has torn me to pieces and been adverse toward me; / He has gnashed His teeth at me. / My Adversary sharpens His eyes at me.

他们向我开口，打我的脸羞辱我，聚集一起攻击我。
With their mouth they gape at me; / They strike my cheek reproachfully; / They mass themselves together against me.

神把我交给不公正的人，把我扔到恶人的手中。
God has delivered me over to the unjust / And cast me down into the hands of the wicked.

我素来安逸，祂折断我，掐住我的颈项，把我摔碎。祂立我作祂的箭靶；
I was at ease, and He broke me apart; / Indeed He took me by my neck and dashed me to pieces. / And He set me up as His target;

祂的弓箭手围绕我；祂破裂我的腰肾，并不留情；把我的胆倾倒在地上。
His archers surrounded me; / He split open my kidneys and did not desist; / He poured out my gall upon the earth.

祂将我破裂又破裂；如同勇士向我直闯。
He broke me open with breach upon breach; / He ran at me like a mighty man of war.

我缝麻布在我皮肤上，把我的角插在尘土中。
I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin / And have cast my horn into the dust.

我的脸因哭泣发红，在我的眼皮上有死荫；
My face is reddened with weeping, / And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

我的手中却无强暴，我的祷告也是清洁。
Though there is no violence in my hands, / And my prayer is pure.

地啊，不要遮盖我的血，愿我的哀号不受阻挡。
O earth, do not cover my blood; / And let there be no resting place for my crying out.

现今在天上有我的见证人，在高处有我的作证者。
Even now, there in heaven is my Witness, / And He who vouches for me is in the heights.

我的朋友讥诮我；我向神眼泪汪汪，
My friends deride me; / My eye pours out tears to God,

愿祂在人与神的争讼中为人辩白，并在世人与邻舍的争讼中为世人辩白。
That He would plead for a man in his case with God / And for a son of man in his case with his Neighbor.

因为再过几年，我必走那往而不返之路。
For when years few in number have come, / I will go the way from which I cannot return.