约伯记 14
1 人为妇人所生， 日子短少，多有患难；
“Man, who 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 grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
3 这样的人你岂睁眼看他吗？ 又叫我来受审吗？
Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgement 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 is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t 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。
Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
7 树若被砍下， 还可指望发芽， 嫩枝生长不息；
“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
8 其根虽然衰老在地里， 干也死在土中，
Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies 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 sprout boughs like a plant.
10 但人死亡而消灭； 他气绝，竟在何处呢？
But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, 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 river wastes 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 doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is 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 dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
15 你呼叫，我便回答； 你手所做的，你必羡慕。
You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for 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？
But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
17 我的过犯被你封在囊中， 也缝严了我的罪孽。
My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
18 山崩变为无有； 磐石挪开原处。
“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The 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。
The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy 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 forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, 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 doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
22 但知身上疼痛， 心中悲哀。
But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”
