| 約伯傳 |
Job |
| 1婦女所生的人，壽命不長，且飽嘗煩惱。 |
1Man born of woman is short-lived and full of trouble, |
| 2他生出像花，瞬息凋謝；急馳如影，不得停留。 |
2Like a flower that springs up and fades, swift as a shadow that does not abide. |
| 3這樣的人，豈配你睜眼注視一下？或傳他到你面前聽審？ |
3Upon such a one will you cast your eyes so as to bring him into judgment before you, |
| 4誰能使潔淨出於不潔？沒有一人！ |
4Can a man be found who is clean of defilement? There is none, |
| 5他的時日既已註定，他的歲數既由你掌管，他決不能越過你定下的期限： |
5however short his days. You know the number of his months; you have fixed the limit which he cannot pass. |
| 6請你別看他，讓他安息，好像傭工度過自己的日期。 |
6Look away from him and let him be, while, like a hireling, he completes his day. |
| 7若是一棵樹被砍伐了，仍有希望生出新芽，嫩枝叢出不窮。 |
7For a tree there is hope, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again and that its tender shoots will not cease. |
| 8它的根雖老於地下，枝幹縱枯死地上， |
8Even though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the dust, |
| 9但一有水氣，立即生芽，好似幼苗發出枝葉。 |
9Yet at the first whiff of water it may flourish again and put forth branches like a young plant. |
| 10但是人一死，立即僵臥；人一斷氣，他究竟在何處？ |
10But when a man dies, all vigor leaves him; when man expires, where then is he? |
| 11海水能乾涸，江河能枯竭； |
11As when the waters of a lake fail, or a stream grows dry and parches, |
| 12同樣，人一僵臥，即不能起立，直到天不存在，仍不能醒起，仍不能由永眠中起來。 |
12So men lie down and rise not again. Till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. |
| 13惟願你將我藏於陰府，將我隱藏，直到挽回你的憤怒；願你給我定一期限，好記念我。 |
13Oh, that you would hide me in the nether world and keep me sheltered till your wrath is past; would fix a time for me, and then remember me! |
| 14人若死了，豈能再生？我在整個從軍之日，要堅持到底，直到換班的時期到來。 |
14When a man has died, were he to live again, all the days of my drudgery I would wait, until my relief should come. |
| 15你若呼喚我，我必回答你：你對你手所造的，必有一種懷念。 |
15You would call, and I would answer you; you would esteem the work of your hands. |
| 16你現今既數了我的腳步，不必再監察我的罪過。 |
16Surely then you would count my steps, and not keep watch for sin in me. |
| 17請把我的罪過封閉在囊中，滌淨我的一切過犯。 |
17 My misdeeds would be sealed up in a pouch, and you would cover over my guilt. |
| 18但是，山能崩裂離析，盤石能由原處挪移， |
18But as a mountain falls at last and its rock is moved from its place, |
| 19流水能穿過石頭，驟雨能沖出泥沙：你也照樣消滅了人的希望。 |
19As waters wear away the stones and floods wash away the soil of the land, so you destroy the hope of man. |
| 20你時常攻擊他，使他消逝；改變他的容貌，遣他離去。 |
20You prevail once for all against him and he passes on; with changed appearance you send him away. |
| 21此後，他的兒子受尊榮與否，他也不知；他們受輕賤與否，他也不覺。 |
21If his sons are honored, he is not aware of it; if they are in disgrace, he does not know about them. |
| 22他只覺自己肉身的痛苦，他的心靈只為自己悲哀。 |
22Only his own flesh pains him, and his soul grieves for him. |
