| 約伯傳 |
Job |
| 1約伯，請你且聽我的話，側耳靜聽我說的一切。 |
1Therefore, O Job, hear my discourse, and hearken to all my words. |
| 2請看，我已開口，舌頭已在口腔內發言。 |
2Behold, now I open my mouth; my tongue and my voice form words. |
| 3我的話是出於正直的心，我的唇舌要清楚說明真理。 |
3I will state directly what is in my mind, my lips shall utter knowledge sincerely; |
| 4天主的神造了我，全能者的氣息使我生活。 |
4For the spirit of God has made me, the breath of the Almighty keeps me alive. |
| 5你如果能夠，就回答我，請準備好，來對抗我。 |
5If you are able, refute me; draw up your arguments and stand forth. |
| 6看，我與你在天主前都是一樣，我也是用泥土造成的。 |
6Behold I, like yourself, have been taken from the same clay by God. |
| 7所以我的威嚇不會使你恐怖，我的手也不會重壓在你身上。 |
7Therefore no fear of me should dismay you, nor should my presence weigh heavily upon you. |
| 8你所說的，我已耳聞，聽到了你所說的話： |
8But you have said in my hearing, as I listened to the sound of your words: |
| 9「我本純潔無罪，清白無瑕。 |
9"I am clean and without transgression; I am innocent; there is no guilt in me. |
| 10但天主卻在我身上找錯，視我為他的對頭； |
10Yet he invents pretexts against me and reckons me as his enemy. |
| 11他把我的腳縛在木樁上，窺察我的一切行動。」 |
11He puts my feet in the stocks; he watches all my ways!" |
| 12我答覆你說：你這話說的不對，因為天主遠超世人。 |
12In this you are not just, let me tell you; for God is greater than man. |
| 13他既不答覆你說的一切話，你為何還同他爭辯？ |
13Why, then, do you make complaint against him that he gives no account of his doings? |
| 14原來天主用一種方法向人講話，人若不理會，他再用另一種方法： |
14For God does speak, perhaps once, or even twice, though one perceive it not. |
| 15天主有時藉夢和夜間的異像，當人躺在床上沉睡的時候， |
15In a dream, in a vision of the night, (when deep sleep falls upon men) as they slumber in their beds, |
| 16開啟人的聽覺，用異像驚嚇他， |
16It is then he opens the ears of men and as a warning to them, terrifies them; |
| 17使人脫離惡念，使人剷除驕傲， |
17By turning man from evil and keeping pride away from him, |
| 18阻攔他陷於陰府，救他的性命脫離溝壑。 |
18He withholds his soul from the pit and his life from passing to the grave. |
| 19天主也有時懲罰人在床上受痛苦，使他的骨頭不斷的刺痛， |
19Or a man is chastened on his bed by pain and unceasing suffering within his frame, |
| 20以致他討厭食物，他的心厭惡美味。 |
20So that to his appetite food becomes repulsive, and his senses reject the choicest nourishment. |
| 21他身上的肉已消逝不見，他枯瘦的骨頭，已開始外露。 |
21His flesh is wasted so that it cannot be seen, and his bones, once invisible, appear; |
| 22他的靈魂已臨近墓穴，他的生命已接近死亡之所。 |
22His soul draws near to the pit, his life to the place of the dead. |
| 23一千天使中，若有一個在他身傍，作他的代言人，提醒他應行的義務， |
23 If then there be for him an angel, one out of a thousand, a mediator, To show him what is right for him and bring the man back to justice, |
| 24且憐憫那人，為他轉求說：「求你拯救他，以免陷於陰府，因為我已找到了贖金。」 |
24He will take pity on him and say, "Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found him a ransom." |
| 25他的肉身比少年人的肉身必更健美，他的青春歲月又恢復了。 |
25Then his flesh shall become soft as a boy's; he shall be again as in the days of his youth. |
| 26他祈求天主，必獲得悅納。他必歡然得見天主的儀容，天主也必恢復他的正義。 |
26He shall pray and God will favor him; he shall see God's face with rejoicing. |
| 27那時，他將在人前重述所經歷的事說：「我犯了罪，顛倒了是非，但他沒有照我的罪罰我。 |
27He shall sing before men and say, "I sinned and did wrong, yet he has not punished me accordingly. |
| 28他救了我生命免入陰府，使我重見光明。」 |
28He delivered my soul from passing to the pit, and I behold the light of life." |
| 29這就是天主接二連三為人所做的事， |
29Lo, all these things God does, twice, or thrice, for a man, |
| 30挽救他脫離陰府，重見生命之光。 |
30Bringing back his soul from the pit to the light, in the land of the living. |
| 31約伯啊！請留神傾聽，靜靜地聽我說話！ |
31Be attentive, O Job; listen to me! Be silent and I will speak. |
| 32你若有話說，請即回覆我，你儘管說，因為我願聽你的理。 |
32If you have aught to say, then answer me. Speak out! I should like to see you justified. |
| 33若沒有話，且聽我說，靜聽我要教給你的智慧。 |
33If not, then do you listen to me; be silent while I teach you wisdom. |
