约伯记 14
1 人为妇人所生， 日子短少，多有患难；
Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.
2 出来如花，又被割下， 飞去如影，不能存留。
He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.
3 这样的人你岂睁眼看他吗？ 又叫我来受审吗？
And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement 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 bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is not one.
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，
Are not his dayes determined? the nober of his moneths are with thee: thou hast appointed his boundes, which he can not passe.
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。
Turne from him that he may cease vntill his desired day, as an hyreling.
7 树若被砍下， 还可指望发芽， 嫩枝生长不息；
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 其根虽然衰老在地里， 干也死在土中，
Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, and the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground,
9 及至得了水气，还要发芽， 又长枝条，像新栽的树一样。
Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth boughes like a plant.
10 但人死亡而消灭； 他气绝，竟在何处呢？
But man is sicke, and dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he?
11 海中的水绝尽， 江河消散干涸。
As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp,
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 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。
If a man die, shall he liue againe? All the dayes of mine appointed time will I waite, till my changing shall come.
15 你呼叫，我便回答； 你手所做的，你必羡慕。
Thou shalt call me, and I shall answere thee: thou louest the worke of thine own hands.
16 但如今你数点我的脚步， 岂不窥察我的罪过吗？
But nowe thou nombrest my steppes, and doest not delay my sinnes.
17 我的过犯被你封在囊中， 也缝严了我的罪孽。
Mine iniquitie is sealed vp, as in a bagge, and thou addest vnto my wickednesse.
18 山崩变为无有； 磐石挪开原处。
And surely as the mountaine that falleth, commeth to nought, and the rocke that is remooued from his 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。
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 preuailest alway against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest him away.
21 他儿子得尊荣，他也不知道， 降为卑，他也不觉得。
And he knoweth not if his sonnes shall be honourable, neither shall he vnderstand concerning them, whether they shalbe of lowe degree,
22 但知身上疼痛， 心中悲哀。
But while his flesh is vpon him, he shall be sorowfull, and while his soule is in him, it shall mourne.
