约伯记 14
1 人为妇人所生， 日子短少，多有患难；
Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
2 出来如花，又被割下， 飞去如影，不能存留。
Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.
3 这样的人你岂睁眼看他吗？ 又叫我来受审吗？
And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?
4 谁能使洁净之物出于污秽之中呢？ 无论谁也不能！
Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?
5 人的日子既然限定， 他的月数在你那里， 你也派定他的界限，使他不能越过，
The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.
6 便求你转眼不看他，使他得歇息， 直等他像雇工人完毕他的日子。
Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.
7 树若被砍下， 还可指望发芽， 嫩枝生长不息；
A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.
8 其根虽然衰老在地里， 干也死在土中，
If its root be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:
9 及至得了水气，还要发芽， 又长枝条，像新栽的树一样。
At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.
10 但人死亡而消灭； 他气绝，竟在何处呢？
But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?
11 海中的水绝尽， 江河消散干涸。
As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up:
12 人也是如此，躺下不再起来， 等到天没有了，仍不得复醒， 也不得从睡中唤醒。
So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.
Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a. time when thou wilt remember me? (Sheol h7585)
14 人若死了岂能再活呢？ 我只要在我一切争战的日子， 等我被释放的时候来到。
Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.
15 你呼叫，我便回答； 你手所做的，你必羡慕。
Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.
16 但如今你数点我的脚步， 岂不窥察我的罪过吗？
Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.
17 我的过犯被你封在囊中， 也缝严了我的罪孽。
Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.
18 山崩变为无有； 磐石挪开原处。
A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.
19 水流消磨石头， 所流溢的洗去地上的尘土； 你也照样灭绝人的指望。
Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.
20 你攻击人常常得胜，使他去世； 你改变他的容貌，叫他往而不回。
Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.
21 他儿子得尊荣，他也不知道， 降为卑，他也不觉得。
Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.
22 但知身上疼痛， 心中悲哀。
But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.
