約伯記 14
1 婦女所生的人，壽命不長，且飽嘗煩惱。
A man is borun of a womman, and lyueth schort tyme, and is fillid with many wretchidnessis.
2 他生出像花，瞬息凋謝；急馳如影，不得停留。
Which goith out, and is defoulid as a flour; and fleeth as schadewe, and dwellith neuere perfitli in the same staat.
3 這樣的人，豈配你睜眼注視一下﹖或傳他到你面前聽審﹖
And gessist thou it worthi to opene thin iyen on siche a man; and to brynge hym in to doom with thee?
4 誰能使潔淨出於不潔﹖沒有一人!
Who may make a man clene conseyued of vnclene seed? Whether not thou, which art aloone?
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：
The daies of man ben schorte, the noumbre of his monethis is at thee; thou hast set, ethir ordeyned, hise termes, whiche moun not be passid.
6 請你別看他，讓他安息，好像傭工度過自己的日期。
Therfor go thou awey fro hym a litil, `that is, bi withdrawyng of bodili lijf, that he haue reste; til the meede coueitid come, and his dai is as the dai of an hirid man.
7 若是一棵樹被砍伐了，仍有希望生出新芽，嫩枝叢出不窮。
A tree hath hope, if it is kit doun; and eft it wexith greene, and hise braunches spreden forth.
8 它的根雖老於地下，枝幹縱枯死地上，
If the roote therof is eeld in the erthe, and the stok therof is nyy deed in dust;
9 但一有水氣，立即生芽，好似幼苗發出枝葉。
it schal buriowne at the odour of watir, and it schal make heer, as whanne it was plauntid first.
10 但是人一死，立即僵臥；人一斷氣，他究竟在何處﹖
But whanne a man is deed, and maad nakid, and wastid; Y preye, where is he?
11 海水能乾涸，江河能枯竭；
As if watris goen awei fro the see, and a ryuer maad voide wexe drie,
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 a man, whanne he hath slept, `that is, deed, he schal not rise ayen, til heuene be brokun, `that is, be maad newe; he schal not wake, nether he schal ryse togidere fro his sleep.
Who yiueth this to me, that thou defende me in helle, and that thou hide me, til thi greet veniaunce passe; and thou sette to me a tyme, in which thou haue mynde on 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。
Gessist thou, whethir a deed man schal lyue ayen? In alle the daies, in whiche Y holde knyythod, now Y abide, til my chaungyng 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 schalt clepe me, and Y schal answere thee; thou schalt dresse the riyt half, `that is, blis, to the werk of thin hondis.
16 你現今既數了我的腳步，不必再監察我的罪過。
Sotheli thou hast noumbrid my steppis; but spare thou my synnes.
17 請把我的罪過封閉在囊中，滌淨我的一切過犯。
Thou hast seelid as in a bagge my trespassis, but thou hast curid my wickidnesse.
18 但是，山能崩裂離析，盤石能由原處挪移，
An hil fallynge droppith doun; and a rooche of stoon is borun ouer fro 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。
Watris maken stoonys holowe, and the erthe is wastid litil and litil bi waischyng a wey of watir; and therfor thou schalt leese men in lijk maner.
20 你時常攻擊他，使他消逝；改變他的容貌，遣他離去。
Thou madist a man strong a litil, that he schulde passe with outen ende; thou schalt chaunge his face, and schalt sende hym out.
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。
Whether hise sones ben noble, ether vnnoble, he schal not vndurstonde.
22 他只覺自己肉身的痛苦，他的心靈只為自己悲哀。
Netheles his fleisch, while he lyueth, schal haue sorewe, and his soule schal morne on hym silf.
