16:1 约伯回答说：
Then Job answered and said: 16:2 象这样的话，我听了许多；你们的安慰反使人烦恼。
I have heard this sort of thing many times. Wearisome comforters are you all! 16:3 这些风凉话何时了﹖或者有什么事迫你非说不可﹖
Is there no end to windy words? Or what sickness have you that you speak on? 16:4 若是你们处在我的境遇中，我也会说象你们所说的话，也会花言巧语讥笑你们，向你们摇头。
I also could talk as you do, were you in my place. I could declaim over you, or wag my head at you; 16:5 我也会以口舌宽慰你们，摇唇鼓舌来减轻你们的痛苦。
I could strengthen you with talk, or shake my head with silent lips. 16:6 我若讲话，痛苦并不停止；我若闭口不言，难道痛苦就离开我﹖
If I speak, this pain I have will not be checked; if I leave off, it will not depart from me. 16:7 现今天主的确叫我厌倦，使我每个亲人都远离了我；
But now that I am exhausted and stunned, all my company has closed in on me. 16:8 使我憔悴，以指证我；使我消瘦，当面非难我。
As a witness there rises up my traducer, speaking openly against me; 16:9 他在愤怒中撕裂我，窘迫我，向我咬牙切齿；我仇人锋利的眼睛常盯着我。
I am the prey his wrath assails, he gnashes his teeth against me. My enemies lord it over me; 16:10 他们张开大口想吞噬我，责骂着打我的面颊，一起拥上前来攻击我。
their mouths are agape to bite me. They smite me on the cheek insultingly; they are all enlisted against me. 16:11 天主将我交于不义之人，将我丢在恶人手中。
God has given me over to the impious; into the clutches of the wicked he has cast me. 16:12 我原来安宁，他却折磨我，抓住我的脖子，粉碎我，又拿我当作他的箭靶。
I was in peace, but he dislodged me; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He has set me up for a target; 16:13 他的箭矢四面射击我，射穿我的腰，毫不留情，使我的胆倾流于地。
his arrows strike me from all directions, He pierces my sides without mercy, he pours out my gall upon the ground. 16:14 他将我撕裂粉碎，有如武士向我跑来。
He pierces me with thrust upon thrust; he attacks me like a warrior. 16:15 我缝麻衣包裹我的皮肤，使我额角插入尘土。
I have fastened sackcloth over my skin, and have laid my brow in the dust. 16:16 我的脸因哭泣发红，我睫眉间满是暗影；
My face is inflamed with weeping and there is darkness over my eyes, 16:17 我的手虽没有行过残暴的事，而我的祈祷，又往往纯正。
Although my hands are free from violence, and my prayer is sincere. 16:18 地啊!不要掩盖我的血。愿我的呼声无休息的余地!
O earth, cover not my blood, nor let my outcry come to rest! 16:19 看啊!连现今在天上有我的见证，在高处有我的中保。
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my spokesman is on high. 16:20 我的哀号上彻于天，在天主前我的双目流泪不止。
My friends it is who wrong me; before God my eyes drop tears, 16:21 惟愿人与天主之间有一中人，犹如人与人之间一样!
That he may do justice for a mortal in his presence and decide between a man and his neighbor. 16:22 因为我的年数将尽，快要走上那条一去不返的路途。
For my years are numbered now, and I am on a journey from which I shall not return.