約伯記 40
1 上主又接著問約伯說：
And the Lord God answered Job, and said,
2 好辯之士，豈能同全能者辯論﹖非難天主的，請答覆這一切!
Will [any one] pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.
3 約伯回答上主說：「
And Job answered and said to the Lord,
4 看，我這麼卑賤，我能回答什麼﹖只好用手掩口。
Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these [arguments]? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
5 我說過一次，再不敢重複；我再說一次：我不敢再說什麼! 」
I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.
6 上主由旋風中回答約伯說：
And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying],
7 你要像勇士束好腰，我要問你，請指教我。
Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.
8 你豈能推翻我的評斷，歸罪於我，而自以為有理﹖
Do not set aside my judgment: and dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous?
9 你的手臂豈能同天主的相比﹖你的聲音，那能像雷鳴﹖
Hast thou an arm like the Lord's? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his?
10 請你以尊貴和高雅作你的點綴，以光華美麗作你的衣裳；
Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.
11 發洩你的烈怒，貶抑一切高傲的人；
And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.
12 視察一切傲慢的人，且加以制服，推翻惡人所處的地位；
Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.
13 將他們一同埋在土中，把他們都關在黑暗中!
And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.
14 如果你能這樣作，我也要稱讚你，因為你的右手救護了你。
[Then] will I confess that thy right hand can save [thee].
15 且看河馬，牠同你都是我造成的，牠像牛一樣吃草。
But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.
16 牠的精力全在腰部，牠的力量是在腹部的肌肉；
Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17 牠挺起尾巴好像香柏，大腿上的筋聯結在一起；
He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.
18 牠的脊骨好似銅管，牠的骨骸有如鐵杠。
His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is [as] cast iron.
19 牠是天主的傑作，造牠者賜給了牠利刃。
This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.
20 群山供給牠食物，百獸在那裏同牠遊戲。
And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.
21 牠臥在蓮葉之下，躺在蘆葦和沼澤深處；
He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.
22 蓮葉的蔭影遮蔽著牠，溪邊的楊柳掩護著牠。
And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and [so do] the bushes of the field.
23 河水漲溢之時，牠毫不戰慄；約但河漲到牠口邊，牠仍安寧。
If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.
24 誰能在牠目前捕捉牠，或以木橛穿透牠的鼻孔﹖
[Yet one] shall take him in his sight; [one] shall catch [him] with a cord, and pierce his nose.
