约伯记 17
1 我的心灵消耗，我的日子灭尽； 坟墓为我预备好了。
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2 真有戏笑我的在我这里， 我眼常见他们惹动我。
Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 愿主拿凭据给我，自己为我作保。 在你以外谁肯与我击掌呢？
Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 因你使他们心不明理， 所以你必不高举他们。
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 控告他的朋友、以朋友为可抢夺的， 连他儿女的眼睛也要失明。
If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 神使我作了民中的笑谈； 他们也吐唾沫在我脸上。
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 我的眼睛因忧愁昏花； 我的百体好像影儿。
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8 正直人因此必惊奇； 无辜的人要兴起攻击不敬虔之辈。
The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 然而，义人要持守所行的道； 手洁的人要力上加力。
Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10 至于你们众人，可以再来辩论吧！ 你们中间，我找不着一个智慧人。
But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
11 我的日子已经过了； 我的谋算、我心所想望的已经断绝。
My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.
12 他们以黑夜为白昼， 说：亮光近乎黑暗。
They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, (Sheol h7585)
14 若对朽坏说：你是我的父； 对虫说：你是我的母亲姊妹；
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
15 这样，我的指望在哪里呢？ 我所指望的谁能看见呢？
where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
