| 約伯傳 |
Job |
| 1我實在厭惡我的生活，我要任意苦訴我的怨情，傾吐我心中的酸苦。 |
1 I loathe my life. I will give myself up to complaint; I will speak from the bitterness of my soul. |
| 2我要對天主說：不要定我的罪！請告訴我：你為何與我作對？ |
2I will say to God: Do not put me in the wrong! Let me know why you oppose me. |
| 3你對親手所造的，加以虐待和厭棄，卻顯揚惡人的計劃，為你豈有好處？ |
3Is it a pleasure for you to oppress, to spurn the work of your hands, and smile on the plan of the wicked? |
| 4你豈有肉眼，或者也像人一樣觀看嗎？ |
4Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees? |
| 5你的日月豈像人的日月？你的年歲豈像人的年歲？ |
5Are your days as the days of a mortal, and are your years as a man's lifetime, |
| 6你竟考查我的邪惡，追究我的罪過。 |
6That you seek for guilt in me and search after my sins, |
| 7其實你知道我並沒有罪過，也知道無人能拯救我脫離你的掌握。 |
7Even though you know that I am not wicked, and that none can deliver me out of your hand? |
| 8你親手形成了我，創造了我；此後你又轉念想消滅我。 |
8Your hands have formed me and fashioned me; will you then turn and destroy me? |
| 9求你記憶：你造我時就像摶泥，難道還使我歸於泥土？ |
9Oh, remember that you fashioned me from clay! Will you then bring me down to dust again? |
| 10你不是將我像奶倒出，使我凝結像一塊奶餅？ |
10Did you not pour me out as milk, and thicken me like cheese? |
| 11用皮和肉作我的衣服，用骨和筋把我全身聯絡起來？ |
11With skin and flesh you clothed me, with bones and sinews knit me together. |
| 12是你將生命的恩賜給了我，細心照顧維持了我的氣息。 |
12Grace and favor you granted me, and your providence has preserved my spirit. |
| 13這些事早已藏在你心中，我知道你久有此意： |
13Yet these things you have hidden in your heart; I know that they are your purpose: |
| 14你監視我，看我是否犯罪；如果我有罪；你決不放過。 |
14If I should sin, you would keep a watch against me, and from my guilt you would not absolve me. |
| 15我若有罪，我就有禍了！我若有義，也不敢抬頭，因為我已備嘗凌辱，吃盡苦頭。 |
15If I should be wicked, alas for me! if righteous, I dare not hold up my head, filled with ignominy and sodden with affliction! |
| 16我若抬頭，你就像獅子追捕我，向我表現你的奇能， |
16Should it lift up, you hunt me like a lion: repeatedly you show your wondrous power against me, |
| 17重新襲擊我，加倍對我洩怒。 |
17You renew your attack upon me and multiply your harassment of me; in waves your troops come against me. |
| 18你為何叫我出離母胎？不如我那時斷氣，無人見我， |
18Why then did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have died and no eye have seen me. |
| 19就好像從未有過我一樣，一出母胎即被送入墳墓。 |
19I should be as though I had never lived; I should have been taken from the womb to the grave. |
| 20我生存的日月不是很少嗎？你且放開我罷！ |
20Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may recover a little |
| 21趁我去而不返，未到冥暗死影之地， |
21Before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of gloom, |
| 22即光明也是黑暗之地以前，讓我自在一下罷！ |
22The black, disordered land where darkness is the only light. |
