今我言、不得自解其憂、不言、不得自釋其悶。

“我虽说话，忧愁仍不得消解；我虽停住不说，忧愁就离开我吗？

“我若说话，痛苦仍不得缓解；我若停止，痛苦就离开我吗？

“我若说话，痛苦仍不得缓解；我若停止，痛苦就离开我吗？

“我若申辩，痛苦不减；我若缄默，痛苦犹在。

我若说话，痛苦仍不消解，我若闭口不说，痛苦也不离开我。

我雖說話，憂愁仍不得消解；我雖停住不說，憂愁就離開我嗎？

「我若說話，痛苦仍不得緩解；我若停止，痛苦就離開我嗎？

「我若說話，痛苦仍不得緩解；我若停止，痛苦就離開我嗎？

「我若申辯，痛苦不減；我若緘默，痛苦猶在。

我若說話，痛苦仍不消解，我若閉口不說，痛苦也不離開我。

『就使我說話，痛傷仍然不得制止；就使我自忍不說，多少傷痛會離開我呢？

我雖言之、我憂不解、我若不言、我憂其離我乎、

我若發言、我苦猶不得解、我若緘默、我苦豈離於我、

“ Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.

“ If I speak, it doesn’t help me. And if I keep quiet, my pain doesn’t go away.

“ If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

Instead, I suffer if I defend myself, and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.

If I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, does any of it leave me?

“ If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I refrain, what pain leaves me?

“ Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased?

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?

Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, what have I lost?

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and[ though] I forbear, what am I eased?

“ But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking– how much of it goes away?

“ Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

余自幼遭難、瀕於死亡、爾俾余觳觫、悚然駭懼兮、爾怒震烈、降災我躬、俾我滅亡兮、禍患叢集、如水淹余、靡日不然兮。友朋遠余、惟與陰府為鄰、俱爾所使兮。

我不樂生、怨懟無已時、中心殷憂、必暢所欲言、

籲呼上帝、聲聞於上、余所望兮。余遭難求主、雖至中夜、舉手不息、不敢稍以自慰兮、余也追思上帝、昔日救我、今也不然、彌懷殷憂、念及往事、更喪厥膽兮、因爾譴責、弗能偃息、遘此重艱、難以啟齒兮、余回憶前時、追維陳跡、夤夜謳歌、今也中心存想、以神察理、何不如昔兮、主豈永棄我躬、不復加以矜憫、靳其仁慈、弗踐其應許兮、上帝詎忘其恩澤、絕其哀矜、而懷震怒兮。