但如今比我年少的人戏笑我；其人之父，我曾藐视，不肯安在看守我羊群的狗中。
But now those who are younger than I / Hold me in derision, / Those whose fathers I disdained / To put with the dogs of my flock.

他们壮年的力气既已衰败，其手之力与我何益呢？
Indeed, what good is the strength of their hands to me? / Their vigor has perished from them.

他们因穷乏饥饿，身体枯瘦，在荒废凄凉的幽暗中，啃食于干燥之地；
Withered up through want and hunger, / They gnaw at the dry ground, / A gloom of waste and desolation.

在草丛之中采咸草，罗腾的根为他们的食物。
They pick the mallow upon the bushes, / And the roots of the broom shrub are their food.

他们从人群中被赶出，人追喊他们如追贼一般；
They are driven from the company of men; / Men cry after them as after a thief;

以致他们必须住在极凶险的峡谷之间，在地洞和岩穴之中。
So that they must dwell in the most dreadful ravines, / In caves of the earth and in the rocks.

他们在草丛中叫唤，在荆棘下聚集。
Among the bushes they bray; / Under the nettles they huddle.

这都是愚顽下贱人的儿女；他们被鞭打，赶出境外。
Sons of fools, indeed sons of nameless men, / They have been stricken from the land.

现在我竟成了他们的歌曲，成了他们的笑谈。
And now I have become their song, / And I am a byword to them.

他们厌恶我，远远地离开我；见了面就任意吐唾沫在我脸上。
They abhor me; they stand aloof from me; / And they do not withhold their spit from my face.

神松开绳索苦待我，所以他们在我面前放肆。
For He has loosened my cord and afflicted me; / Therefore they have cast off restraint in my presence.

有下流之辈在我右边起来，推开我的脚，筑起毁坏的路攻击我。
At my right hand a brood rises up; / They send my feet running / And cast up against me their ways of destruction.

他们毁坏我的道路，加增我的灾难，对他们却无助益。
They break up my path; / They promote my calamity, / Though there is no profit to them.

他们来如同闯进大破口；在废墟中，辊辗而来。
As through a wide breach they come in; / Amid the ruin they roll on.

惊恐攻击我；我的尊荣被赶逐，如同被风吹散，我的兴隆如云过去。
Terrors are turned upon me; / My honor is pursued as by a wind, / And my prosperity passes away like a cloud.

现在我里面的魂倾倒出来，极其悲伤；困苦的日子将我抓住。
And now my soul is poured out within me; / Days of affliction have taken hold of me.

黑夜将我的骨头刺透，啃我的疼痛毫不止息。
The night rends my bones from me, / And my gnawing pains do not rest.

因神的大力，我的外衣扭折变形，如同里衣的领子将我缠住。
With great force my garment is distorted; / It binds me like the collar of my coat.

神把我扔在淤泥中，我就像尘土和炉灰一般。
He has cast me into the mire, / And I am like dust and ashes.

主啊，我呼求你，你不应允我；我站起来，你就定睛看我。
I cry unto You, but You do not answer me; / I stand up, and You stare at me.

你变成以残忍待我，用你手的大能追逼我。
You have turned to become cruel to me; / With the might of Your hand You pursue me.

你把我提在风中，使我驾风而行；又使我消散在风暴之中。
You lift me up into the wind; You make me ride on it; / And You dissolve me in the storm.

我知道你要使我归到死地，到那为众生所定的阴宅。
For I know that You will bring me into death, / And to the house appointed for all living.

然而人仆倒，岂不伸手；遇灾难，岂不呼救呢？
Nevertheless does not a man put forth his hand when he falls, / Or because of his disaster therefore cry out?

日子艰难的，我岂不为他哭泣？穷乏的，我魂岂不为他忧愁？
Did I not weep for him who had hard days? / Was my soul not grieved for the needy?

我期望得福乐，灾祸就到了；我等待光明，黑暗便来了。
When I expected good, evil came; / And when I waited for light, darkness came.

我的心肠扰乱不安，困苦的日子迎我而来。
My inward parts are in turmoil and are not still; / Days of affliction have drawn near to me.

我哀哭而行，黯无日光；我在会中站起来呼救。
I go about in sunless mourning. / I rise up in the congregation; I cry for help.

我与野狗为弟兄，与鸵鸟为同伴。
I am a brother to jackals / And a companion to ostriches.

我的皮肤黑而脱落；我的骨头因热烧焦。
My skin is black and falling from me, / And my bones burn with heat.

所以我的琴音变为悲音，我的箫声变为哭声。
My lyre has become mourning, / And my pipe, the voice of those who weep.