10:1 我厭煩我的性命，必由著自己述說我的哀情；因心裡苦惱，我要說話，
10:2 對上帝說：不要定我有罪，要指示我，你為何與我爭辯？
10:3 你手所造的，你又欺壓，又藐視，卻光照惡人的計謀。這事你以為美嗎？
10:4 你的眼豈是肉眼？你查看豈像人查看嗎？
10:5 你的日子豈像人的日子，你的年歲豈像人的年歲，
10:6 就追問我的罪孽，尋察我的罪過嗎？
10:7 其實，你知道我沒有罪惡，並沒有能救我脫離你手的。
10:8 你的手創造我，造就我的四肢百體，你還要毀滅我。
10:9 求你記念─製造我如摶泥一般，你還要使我歸於塵土嗎？
10:10 你不是倒出我來好像奶，使我凝結如同奶餅嗎？
10:11 你以皮和肉為衣給我穿上，用骨與筋把我全體聯絡。
10:12 你將生命和慈愛賜給我；你也眷顧保全我的心靈。
10:13 然而，你待我的這些事早已藏在你心裡；我知道你久有此意。
10:14 我若犯罪，你就察看我，並不赦免我的罪孽。
10:15 我若行惡，便有了禍；我若為義，也不敢抬頭，正是滿心羞愧，眼見我的苦情。
10:16 我若昂首自得，你就追捕我如獅子，又在我身上顯出奇能。
10:17 你重立見證攻擊我，向我加增惱怒，如軍兵更換著攻擊我。
10:18 你為何使我出母胎呢？不如我當時氣絕，無人得見我；
10:19 這樣，就如沒有我一般，一出母胎就被送入墳墓。
10:20 我的日子不是甚少嗎？求你停手寬容我，叫我在往而不返之先─就是往黑暗和死蔭之地以先─可以稍得暢快。
10:21 【併於上節】
10:22 那地甚是幽暗，是死蔭混沌之地；那裡的光好像幽暗。
“I
loathe my very life;
therefore I will give free rein to my complaint
and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I say to God: Do not declare me guilty,
but tell me what charges you have against me.
3 Does it please you to oppress me,
to spurn the work of your hands,
while you smile on the plans of the wicked?
4 Do you have eyes of flesh?
Do you see as a mortal sees?
5 Are your days like those of a mortal
or your years like those of a strong man,
6 that you must search out my faults
and probe after my sin—
7 though you know that I am not guilty
and that no one can rescue me from your hand?
8 “Your
hands shaped me and made me.
Will you now turn and destroy me?
9 Remember that you molded me like clay.
Will you now turn me to dust again?
10 Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese,
11 clothe me with skin and flesh
and knit me together with bones and sinews?
12 You gave me life and showed me kindness,
and in your providence watched over my spirit.
13 “But
this is what you concealed in your heart,
and I know that this was in your mind:
14 If I sinned, you would be watching me
and would not let my offense go unpunished.
15 If I am guilty—woe to me!
Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head,
for I am full of shame
and drowned in[a] my
affliction.
16 If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion
and again display your awesome power against me.
17 You bring new witnesses against me
and increase your anger toward me;
your forces come against me wave upon wave.
18 “Why
then did you bring me out of the womb?
I wish I had died before any eye saw me.
19 If only I had never come into being,
or had been carried straight from the womb to the
grave!
20 Are not my few days almost over?
Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy
21 before I go to the place of no return,
to the land of gloom and utter darkness,
22 to the land of deepest night,
of utter darkness and disorder,
where even the light is like darkness.”
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透過約伯向上帝的質問和自我答辯，我們看出約伯是和上帝有親密的關係，這是約伯和他的朋友談論的教訓之中有不同的地方，因為他的朋友大多說到上帝的屬性，沒有談到上帝和他們的關係！
我們和上帝的關係是不是建立在對話之中？還是建立在客觀的事實當中？這兩者在我們的信仰都很重要，但是我們信靠上帝的人，是要和上帝建立關係，不是只是在知識上認識祂。而主耶穌的拯救，也就要促成我們和上帝建立關係！正如主耶穌所說：「我就是道路、真理、生命；若不藉著我，沒有人能到父那裡去。你們若認識我，也就認識我的父。從今以後，你們認識他，並且已經看見他。」(約翰福音14:5-7)
當然我們知道約伯本身是怎樣敬畏上帝，然而苦難的淬鍊，卻是越發彰顯約伯與上帝之間不是外表的遵行禮儀或是單單「善有善報、惡有惡報」的認識，讓他思考上帝為何如此這樣對他時，與上帝有更深的對話，將內心的感受像上帝抒發！
所以，上帝讓約伯受到苦難似乎好像與撒但賭氣，卻進而讓約伯的生命得著成長！在我們的現實生命中，也像約伯的生命一樣，要經過苦難的陶造，激發出我們生命的光輝，這也是上帝的成全！
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