約伯記 4
1 特曼人厄里法次開始說：
Forsothe Eliphat Themanytes answeride, and seide,
2 人若和你講話，你能忍受嗎﹖但誰又能忍住不說﹖
If we bigynnen to speke to thee, in hap thou schalt take it heuyli; but who may holde a word conseyued?
3 看，你曾勸戒過許多人，堅固過軟弱無能的人；
Lo! thou hast tauyt ful many men, and thou hast strengthid hondis maad feynt.
4 你的話扶起了跌倒的人，堅固了膝弱無力的人；
Thi wordis confermyden men doutynge, and thou coumfortidist knees tremblynge.
5 但是現今災禍一臨於你，你就萎靡不振；一接觸你，你就沮喪失意。
But now a wounde is comun on thee, and thou hast failid; it touchide thee, and thou art disturblid.
6 你敬畏天主之情，豈不是你的依靠﹖你完善的行為，豈不是你的希望﹖
Where is thi drede, thi strengthe, and thi pacience, and the perfeccioun of thi weies?
7 請想：那有無辜者喪亡﹖那有正直者消逝﹖
Y biseche thee, haue thou mynde, what innocent man perischide euere, ethir whanne riytful men weren doon awei?
8 照我所見：那播種邪惡的，必收邪惡；散佈毒害的，必收毒害。
Certis rathir Y siy hem, that worchen wickidnesse, and sowen sorewis,
9 天主一噓氣，他們即滅亡；一發怒氣，他們即消失。
and repen tho, to haue perischid bi God blowynge, and to be wastid bi the spirit of his ire.
10 獅吼豹嗥完全止息，幼獅的牙齒也被打碎；
The roryng of a lioun, and the vois of a lionesse, and the teeth of `whelpis of liouns ben al to-brokun.
11 壯獅因缺獵物而滅絕，牝獅幼子各自東西離散。
Tigris perischide, for sche hadde not prey; and the whelpis of a lioun ben distried.
12 我竊聽到一句話，我耳聽見細語聲。
Certis an hid word was seid to me, and myn eere took as theueli the veynes of priuy noise therof.
13 當人沉睡時，夜夢多幻象；
In the hidousnesse of `nyytis siyt, whanne heuy sleep is wont to occupie men,
14 我恐怖戰慄，全身骨頭發抖。
drede and tremblyng helde me; and alle my boonys weren aferd.
15 寒風掠過我面，使我毛髮悚然。
And whanne the spirit `yede in my presence, the heiris of `my fleisch hadden hidousnesse.
16 他停立不動，但我不能辨其形狀；我面前出現形影，我聽見細微的聲音：
Oon stood, whos chere Y knewe not, an ymage bifor myn iyen; and Y herde a vois as of softe wynd.
17 人豈能在天主前自以為義﹖在造他者前，自以為潔﹖
Whether a man schal be maad iust in comparisoun of God? ethir whethir a man schal be clennere than his Makere?
18 看，他的僕役，他還不信；他的使者，他還歸罪，
Lo! thei that seruen hym ben not stidefast; and he findith schrewidnesse in hise aungels.
19 何況那以泥屋為居所，以塵土為基礎的人! 他們為人踐踏，有如蠹蟲；
Hou myche more thei that dwellen in housis of cley, that han an ertheli foundement, schulen be wastyd as of a mouyte.
20 晨昏間即化為齏粉，永遠消亡而無人一顧。
Fro morewtid til to euentid thei schulen be kit doun; and for no man vndurstondith, thei schulen perische with outen ende.
21 幕索如已自斷，他們豈不是因缺少智慧而死亡﹖
Sotheli thei, that ben residue, schulen be takun awei; thei schulen die, and not in wisdom.
