「我若申辯，痛苦不減；我若緘默，痛苦猶在。

“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?

我從小受苦，幾乎喪命。你使我驚恐不已，陷入絕望。你的烈怒吞噬了我，你可怕的攻擊毀滅了我。這些災難如洪濤整天環繞我，徹底圍住我。你使我的親朋好友離我而去，只有黑暗與我相伴。

「我厭惡自己的生命，我要傾訴我的哀怨，吐露心中的苦水。

我呼求上帝，我高聲呼求，上帝垂聽我的禱告。我在困境中尋求主。我整夜舉手禱告，我的心無法得到安慰。我思想上帝，發出哀歎；我默想，心靈疲憊不堪。（細拉）你使我無法合眼，我心亂如麻，默然無語。我回想從前的日子，那久遠的歲月，想起自己夜間所唱的歌。我沉思默想，捫心自問：「難道主要永遠丟棄我，不再恩待我了嗎？難道祂的慈愛永遠消逝了嗎？祂的應許永遠落空了嗎？難道上帝已忘記施恩，在憤怒中收回了祂的慈愛嗎？」（細拉）