“我若申辩，痛苦不减；我若缄默，痛苦犹在。

“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、

今我言、不得自解其憂、不言、不得自釋其悶。

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?

我从小受苦，几乎丧命。你使我惊恐不已，陷入绝望。你的烈怒吞噬了我，你可怕的攻击毁灭了我。这些灾难如洪涛整天环绕我，彻底围住我。你使我的亲朋好友离我而去，只有黑暗与我相伴。

“我厌恶自己的生命，我要倾诉我的哀怨，吐露心中的苦水。

我呼求上帝，我高声呼求，上帝垂听我的祷告。我在困境中寻求主。我整夜举手祷告，我的心无法得到安慰。我思想上帝，发出哀叹；我默想，心灵疲惫不堪。（细拉）你使我无法合眼，我心乱如麻，默然无语。我回想从前的日子，那久远的岁月，想起自己夜间所唱的歌。我沉思默想，扪心自问：“难道主要永远丢弃我，不再恩待我了吗？难道祂的慈爱永远消逝了吗？祂的应许永远落空了吗？难道上帝已忘记施恩，在愤怒中收回了祂的慈爱吗？”（细拉）