| 約伯傳 |
Job |
| 1的確，這一切我親眼見過，親耳聽過，是我熟悉的事。 |
1Lo, all this my eye has seen; my ear has heard and perceived it. |
| 2你們所知道的，我也知道，我並不亞於你們。 |
2What you know, I also know; I fall not short of you. |
| 3但是，我願同全能者交談，願與天主辯論， |
3But I would speak with the Almighty; I wish to reason with God. |
| 4因為你們都是謊言的捏造者，全是無用的醫生。 |
4You are glossing over falsehoods and offering vain remedies, every one of you! |
| 5恨不得你們閉口不言！這樣纔算聰明。 |
5Oh, that you would be altogether silent! This for you would be wisdom. |
| 6請你們聽我的怨訴，留意我口中的辯論！ |
6Hear now the rebuke I shall utter and listen to the reproof from my lips. |
| 7你們想以詭詐來為天主辯護，以謊言來為他說理？ |
7Is it for God that you speak falsehood? Is it for him that you utter deceit? |
| 8難道你們想偏袒天主，有意為他辯護嗎？ |
8Is it for him that you show partiality? Do you play advocate on behalf of God? |
| 9他揭穿了你們，難道為你們有益？難道你們能欺騙他如人之欺騙人？ |
9Will it be well when he shall search you out? Would you impose on him as one does on men? |
| 10你們若假意偏袒，他必嚴厲斥責你們。 |
10He will openly rebuke you if even in secret you show partiality. |
| 11他的尊嚴能不使你們恐怖？他的威嚇能不落在你們身上？ |
11Surely will his majesty affright you and the dread of him fall upon you. |
| 12你們的古諺都是些腐朽之談，你們的答辯都是些泥製的盾牌。 |
12Your reminders are ashy maxims, your fabrications are mounds of clay. |
| 13你們且住口，讓我來發言：不要管我有什麼遭遇。 |
13Be silent, let me alone! that I may speak and give vent to my feelings. |
| 14我已將我的肉放在我牙齒中，已將我的性命放在我手中； |
14 I will carry my flesh between my teeth, and take my life in my hand. |
| 15即使他殺我，我仍希望在他面前表白我的行為。 |
15Slay me though he might, I will wait for him; I will defend my conduct before him. |
| 16這樣對我還有救，因為惡人不敢到他面前。 |
16And this shall be my salvation, that no impious man can come into his presence. |
| 17你們要細聽我的話，側耳靜聽我的解釋。 |
17Pay careful heed to my speech, and give my statement a hearing. |
| 18我今呈上我的案件，確知我自己有理。 |
18Behold, I have prepared my case, I know that I am in the right. |
| 19誰若與我爭辯，我就住口，情願死去。 |
19If anyone can make a case against me, then I shall be silent and die. |
| 20惟有二事，你切莫向我作，我就不迴避你： |
20 These things only do not use against me, then from your presence I need not hide: |
| 21請將你的手由我身上撤回，莫讓你的威嚴恐嚇我。 |
21Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not the terror of you frighten me. |
| 22那時你若召喚，我必回答；或者我說，你回答我。 |
22Then call me, and I will respond; or let me speak first, and answer me. |
| 23我的邪惡罪過，究有多少？讓我認識我的過犯和罪過。 |
23What are my faults and my sins? My misdeeds and my sins make known to me! |
| 24你為何遮掩你的面容，將我視作你的仇人？ |
24Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy? |
| 25難道你要喝走被風吹落的樹葉，要追逐已枯乾的碎稭？ |
25Will you harass a wind-driven leaf, or pursue a withered straw? |
| 26你寫下了我受苦的判詞，使我承當我青年時的罪過。 |
26For you draw up bitter indictments against me, and punish in me the faults of my youth. |
| 27你把我的腳縛在木樁上，窺察我的一切行動，又為我的腳步劃定界限。 |
27You put my feet in the stocks; you watch all my paths and trace out all my footsteps. |
| 28我的生命已如腐爛的朽木，已如蛀蝕的衣服。 |
28 Though he wears out like a leather bottle, like a garment that the moth has consumed? |
