約伯記 14
1 婦女所生的人，壽命不長，且飽嘗煩惱。
Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.
2 他生出像花，瞬息凋謝；急馳如影，不得停留。
He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, 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 yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee.
4 誰能使潔淨出於不潔﹖沒有一人!
Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is 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：
Are not his dayes determined? the nober of his moneths are with thee: thou hast appointed his boundes, which he can not passe.
6 請你別看他，讓他安息，好像傭工度過自己的日期。
Turne from him that he may cease vntill his desired day, as an hyreling.
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 bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.
8 它的根雖老於地下，枝幹縱枯死地上，
Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, and the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground,
9 但一有水氣，立即生芽，好似幼苗發出枝葉。
Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth boughes 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 is sicke, and dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he?
11 海水能乾涸，江河能枯竭；
As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp,
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 sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more.
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath were past, and wouldest giue me terme, 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 liue againe? All the dayes of mine appointed time will I waite, till my changing shall 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 shalt call me, and I shall answere thee: thou louest the worke of thine own hands.
16 你現今既數了我的腳步，不必再監察我的罪過。
But nowe thou nombrest my steppes, and doest not delay my sinnes.
17 請把我的罪過封閉在囊中，滌淨我的一切過犯。
Mine iniquitie is sealed vp, as in a bagge, and thou addest vnto my wickednesse.
18 但是，山能崩裂離析，盤石能由原處挪移，
And surely as the mountaine that falleth, commeth to nought, and the rocke that is remooued from his 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。
As the water breaketh the stones, when thou ouerflowest the things which growe in the dust of ye earth: so thou destroyest ye 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 preuailest alway against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest 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。
And he knoweth not if his sonnes shall be honourable, neither shall he vnderstand concerning them, whether they shalbe of lowe degree,
22 他只覺自己肉身的痛苦，他的心靈只為自己悲哀。
But while his flesh is vpon him, he shall be sorowfull, and while his soule is in him, it shall mourne.
