But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
2他们的精力既已衰败， 手中的气力于我何益？Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
3他们因穷乏饥饿，没有生气， 在荒废凄凉的幽暗中啃干燥之地。For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4他们在草丛之中采咸草， 罗腾☛“罗腾”是音译，小树名，松类。树的根成为他们的食物。Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
5他们从人群中被赶出， 人追喊他们如贼一般，They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
6以致他们住在荒谷， 住在地洞和岩穴中。To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
7他们在草丛中叫唤， 在荆棘下挤成一团。Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
8这都是愚顽卑微人的儿女； 他们被鞭打，赶出境外。They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
9“现在这些人以我为歌曲， 以我为笑谈。And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
10他们厌恶我，躲避我， 不住地吐唾沫在我脸上。They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11神松开我的弓弦☛“我的弓弦”：原文另译“他的弓弦”。使我受苦， 他们就在我面前脱去辔头。Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
12这伙人在我右边起来， 他们推开我的脚， 筑灾难之路攻击我。Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
13他们毁坏我的道， 加增我的灾害； 他们毋须人帮助。They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14他们来，如同闯进大缺口， 在暴风间滚动。They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
15惊恐倾倒在我身上， 我的尊荣被逐如风； 我的福禄如云飘去。Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
16“现在我的心极其悲伤， 困苦的日子将我抓住。And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17夜间，我里面的骨头刺痛， 啃着我的没有止息。My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18我的外衣因大力扭皱 ☛“我的外衣...扭皱”：七十士译本是“他用大力抓住我的外衣”。， 内衣的领子把我勒住。By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19神把我扔在淤泥之中， 我就像尘土和灰烬一样。He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
20我呼求你，你不应允我； 我站起来，你只是望着我。I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
21你对我变得残忍， 大能的手追逼我。Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
22你把我提到风中，使我乘风而去， 使我消失在烈风之中。Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
23我知道你要使我归于死亡， 到那为众生所定的阴宅。For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
24“然而，人在废墟岂不伸手？ 遇灾难时一定呼救。☛“遇灾难时一定呼救。”原文另译“遇灾难时岂不呼救呢？”或“遇灾难时必得帮助。”Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25人遭难的日子，我岂不为他哭泣呢？ 人贫穷的时候，我岂不为他忧愁呢？Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
26我仰望福气，灾祸就来到； 我等待光明，黑暗便来临。When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27我内心烦扰不安， 困苦的日子临到我身。My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28我在阴暗中行走，没有日光☛“我在阴暗中...日光”或译“我变得黝黑并非因日晒”。， 我在会众中站立求救。I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
29我与野狗为弟兄， 我跟鸵鸟为同伴。I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30我的皮肤变黑脱落， 我的骨头因热烧焦。My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31我的琴音变为哀泣； 我的箫声变为哭声。”My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.