約伯記 14
1 婦女所生的人，壽命不長，且飽嘗煩惱。
Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 他生出像花，瞬息凋謝；急馳如影，不得停留。
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3 這樣的人，豈配你睜眼注視一下﹖或傳他到你面前聽審﹖
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?
4 誰能使潔淨出於不潔﹖沒有一人!
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
5 他的時日既已注定，他的歲數既由你掌管，他決不能越過你定下的期限：
Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6 請你別看他，讓他安息，好像傭工度過自己的日期。
Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, 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。
For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8 它的根雖老於地下，枝幹縱枯死地上，
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground;
9 但一有水氣，立即生芽，好似幼苗發出枝葉。
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.
10 但是人一死，立即僵臥；人一斷氣，他究竟在何處﹖
But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
11 海水能乾涸，江河能枯竭；
[As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;
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。
So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! (Sheol h7585)
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。
If a man die, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release 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。
Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee: Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands.
16 你現今既數了我的腳步，不必再監察我的罪過。
But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?
17 請把我的罪過封閉在囊中，滌淨我的一切過犯。
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And thou fastenest up mine iniquity.
18 但是，山能崩裂離析，盤石能由原處挪移，
But the mountain falling cometh to nought; And the rock is removed out of 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。
The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest 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。
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest 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。
His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
22 他只覺自己肉身的痛苦，他的心靈只為自己悲哀。
But his flesh upon him hath pain, And his soul within him mourneth.
