约伯记 14
1 人为妇人所生， 日子短少，多有患难；
Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
2 出来如花，又被割下， 飞去如影，不能存留。
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
3 这样的人你岂睁眼看他吗？ 又叫我来受审吗？
And does you open your eyes upon such an one, and bring me into judgment with you?
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 clean thing out of an unclean? 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，
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
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。
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a worker, his day.
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 be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8 其根虽然衰老在地里， 干也死在土中，
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9 及至得了水气，还要发芽， 又长枝条，像新栽的树一样。
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10 但人死亡而消灭； 他气绝，竟在何处呢？
But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
11 海中的水绝尽， 江河消散干涸。
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries 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 lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, 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 live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15 你呼叫，我便回答； 你手所做的，你必羡慕。
You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.
16 但如今你数点我的脚步， 岂不窥察我的罪过吗？
For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin?
17 我的过犯被你封在囊中， 也缝严了我的罪孽。
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up mine iniquity.
18 山崩变为无有； 磐石挪开原处。
And surely the mountains falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of 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。
The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroys the 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。
You prevail for ever against him, and he passes: you change his countenance, and send him away.
21 他儿子得尊荣，他也不知道， 降为卑，他也不觉得。
His sons come to honour, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.
22 但知身上疼痛， 心中悲哀。
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
