| 約伯傳 |
Job |
| 1為此我心戰慄，跳離它的原位。 |
1At this my heart trembles and leaps out of its place, |
| 2你們且細聽天主的怒吼聲，聽那從他口中發出的巨響。 |
2 To hear his angry voice as it rumbles forth from his mouth! |
| 3他令閃電炫耀天下，使之照射地極； |
3Everywhere under the heavens he sends it, with his lightning, to the ends of the earth. |
| 4接着是雷聲隆隆，那是天主威嚴之聲；他的巨聲一響，沒有什麼能夠阻止。 |
4Again his voice roars-- the majestic sound of his thunder. |
| 5天主每以巨響施行奇事，做出我們莫測的事。 |
5He does great things beyond our knowing; wonders past our searching out. |
| 6他命令雪說：「落在大地上！」對暴雨說：「傾盆而降！」 |
6For he says to the snow, "Fall to the earth"; likewise to his heavy, drenching rain. |
| 7人人都停止活動，為叫人知道，這是他的作為。 |
7He shuts up all mankind indoors; |
| 8野獸逃回洞穴，臥於自己的窩中。 |
8the wild beasts take to cover and remain quietly in their dens. |
| 9暴風來自南極密宮，嚴寒出自極北之地。 |
9 Out of its chamber comes forth the tempest; from the north winds, the cold. |
| 10天主噓氣成冰，使大水凝成一片。 |
10With his breath God brings the frost, and the broad waters become congealed. |
| 11他使雲霧滿涵濕氣，使閃光穿過烏雲。 |
11With hail, also, the clouds are laden, as they scatter their flashes of light. |
| 12雷電照他的指示旋轉，全照他的命令實行於地面， |
12 He it is who changes their rounds, according to his plans, in their task upon the surface of the earth, |
| 13或為懲戒大地，或為施行恩惠。 |
13whether for punishment or mercy, as he commands. |
| 14約伯啊！你且側耳細聽這事，立着沈思天主的奇事！ |
14Hearken to this, O Job! Stand and consider the wondrous works of God! |
| 15你豈能知道天主怎樣發命，怎樣使雲中電光閃爍？ |
15Do you know how God lays his commands upon them, and makes the light shine forth from his clouds? |
| 16雲怎樣浮動，全知者的奇妙化工，你豈能明白？ |
16Do you know how the clouds are banked, the wondrous work of him who is perfect in knowledge? |
| 17當南風吹起，大地鎮靜時，你的衣服豈不是發暖？ |
17You, whom the streams of water fail when a calm from the south comes over the land, |
| 18你豈能同他展開蒼天，使它堅固如鑄成的銅鏡？ |
18 Do you spread out with him the firmament of the skies, hard as a brazen mirror? |
| 19我們昏愚，不能講話，請教訓我們怎樣答覆他。 |
19Teach us then what we shall say to him; we cannot, for the darkness, make our plea. |
| 20我說話時，能給他講述些什麼新事？世人說話後，豈算是告訴他一項新聞？ |
20 Will he be told about it when I speak, or when a man says he is being destroyed? |
| 21人現今看不見陽光照耀天空，除非等到風過天晴。 |
21 Nay, rather, it is as the light which men see not while it is obscured among the clouds, till the wind comes by and sweeps the clouds away. |
| 22金光來自北方，天主的左右有嚴威可怕的異光。 |
22 From the North the splendor comes, surrounding God's awesome majesty! |
| 23全能者是我們不可接近的，他的能力和正義，高超絕倫；他公義正道，決不欺壓。 |
23The Almighty! we cannot discover him, pre-eminent in power and judgment; his great justice owes no one an accounting. |
| 24所以人應敬畏他；但那心中自以為聰慧的，他卻不眷顧。 |
24Therefore men revere him, though none can see him, however wise their hearts. |
