| 約伯傳 |
Job |
| 1約伯回答說： |
1Then Job answered and said: |
| 2你們叫我的心悲傷，說話苦惱我，要到何時？ |
2How long will you vex my soul, grind me down with words? |
| 3你們侮辱我，已有十次之多，苛待我卻不知羞愧。 |
3These ten times you have reviled me, have assailed me without shame! |
| 4我若實在錯了，錯自由我承當。 |
4Be it indeed that I am at fault and that my fault remains with me, |
| 5如果你們真要對我自誇，證明我的醜惡， |
5Even so, if you would vaunt yourselves against me and cast up to me any reproach, |
| 6你們應當知道：是天主虐待了我，是他用自己的羅網圍困了我。 |
6Know then that God has dealt unfairly with me, and compassed me round with his net. |
| 7我若高呼說「殘暴」，但得不到答覆；我大聲呼冤，卻沒有正義。 |
7If I cry out "Injustice!" I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no redress. |
| 8他攔住我的去路，使我不得過去，使黑暗籠罩着我的去路。 |
8He has barred my way and I cannot pass; he has veiled my path in darkness; |
| 9他奪去了我的光榮，摘下了我頭上的冠冕； |
9He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the diadem from my brow. |
| 10他四面打擊我，使我逝去；拔除我的希望，猶如拔樹。 |
10He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope he has uprooted like a tree. |
| 11他對我怒火如焚，拿我當作他的仇敵。 |
11His wrath he has kindled against me; he counts me among his enemies. |
| 12他的軍隊一齊開來，修好道路攻擊我，圍着我的帳幕紮營。 |
12His troops advance as one man; they build up their road to attack me, and they encamp around my tent. |
| 13他使我的兄弟離棄我，使我的知己疏遠我。 |
13My brethren have withdrawn from me, and my friends are wholly estranged. |
| 14鄰人和相識者都不見了，寄居我家的人都忘了我。 |
14My kinsfolk and companions neglect me, and my guests have forgotten me. |
| 15我的婢女拿我當作外人，視我如一陌生人。 |
15Even my handmaids treat me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. |
| 16我呼喚僕人，他不回答；我必須親口央求他。 |
16I call my servant, but he gives no answer, though in my speech I plead with him. |
| 17我的氣味使妻子憎厭，我的同胞視我作臭物。 |
17My breath is abhorred by my wife; I am loathsome to the men of my family. |
| 18連孩子們也輕慢我，我一起來，他們就凌辱我。 |
18The young children, too, despise me; when I appear, they speak against me. |
| 19我的知交密友都憎惡我，我所愛的人也對我變了臉。 |
19All my intimate friends hold me in horror; those whom I loved have turned against me! |
| 20我的骨頭緊貼着皮，我很徼幸還保留牙床。 |
20 My bones cleave to my skin, and I have escaped with my flesh between my teeth. |
| 21我的朋友，你們可憐可憐我罷！因為天主的手打傷了我。 |
21Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me! |
| 22你們為何如同天主一樣逼迫我，吃了我的肉還不知足呢？ |
22 Why do you hound me as though you were divine, and insatiably prey upon me? |
| 23惟願我的話都記錄下來，都刻在銅板上； |
23 Oh, would that my words were written down! Would that they were inscribed in a record: |
| 24用鐵鑿刻在鉛版上，永遠鑿在磐石上。 |
24That with an iron chisel and with lead they were cut in the rock forever! |
| 25我確實知道為我伸冤者還活着，我的辯護人要在地上起立。 |
25 But as for me, I know that my Vindicator lives, and that he will at last stand forth upon the dust; |
| 26我的皮膚雖由我身上脫落，但我仍要看見天主； |
26And from my flesh I shall see God; my inmost being is consumed with longing. |
| 27要看見他站在我這一方，我親眼要看見他，並非外人；我的五內因熱望而耗盡。 |
27Whom I myself shall see: my own eyes, not another's, shall behold him, |
| 28如果你們說：「我們怎能難為他？怎能在他身上尋到這事的根由？」 |
28But you who say, "How shall we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in him?" |
| 29你們應當害怕刀劍，因為報復罪惡者是刀劍；如此你們知道終有一個審判者。 |
29Be afraid of the sword for yourselves, for these crimes deserve the sword; that you may know that there is a judgment. |
