「我若說話，痛苦仍不得緩解；我若停止，痛苦就離開我嗎？

“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?

我自幼受苦，幾乎死亡；你使我驚恐，煩亂不安。你的烈怒漫過我身，你用驚嚇把我除滅。這些如水終日環繞我，一起圍困我。你把我的良朋密友隔在遠處，使我所認識的人都在黑暗裏。

「我厭惡自己的性命，任由我述說自己的苦情；因心裏苦惱，我要說話。

我要向上帝發聲呼求；我向上帝發聲，他必側耳聽我。我在患難之日尋求主，在夜間不住地舉手禱告，我的心不肯受安慰。我想念上帝，就煩躁不安；我沉思默想，心靈發昏。（細拉）你使我不能閉眼；我心煩亂，甚至不能說話。我追想古時之日，上古之年。夜間我想起我的歌曲，我的心默想，我的靈仔細省察：「難道主要永遠丟棄我，不再施恩嗎？難道他的慈愛永遠窮盡，他的應許世世廢棄嗎？難道上帝忘記施恩，因發怒就止住他的憐憫嗎？」（細拉）