約伯記 14
1 人為婦人所生， 日子短少，多有患難；
For a mortal born of a woman [is] short lived, and full of wrath.
2 出來如花，又被割下， 飛去如影，不能存留。
Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and can’t continue.
3 這樣的人你豈睜眼看他嗎？ 又叫我來受審嗎？
Hast you not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgement before you?
4 誰能使潔淨之物出於污穢之中呢？ 無論誰也不能！
For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;
5 人的日子既然限定， 他的月數在你那裏， 你也派定他的界限，使他不能越過，
if even his life should be [but] one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: you have appointed [him] for a time, and he shall by no means exceed [it].
6 便求你轉眼不看他，使他得歇息， 直等他像雇工人完畢他的日子。
Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, [though] as a hireling.
7 樹若被砍下， 還可指望發芽， 嫩枝生長不息；
For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, [that] it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail.
8 其根雖然衰老在地裏， 幹也死在土中，
For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock;
9 及至得了水氣，還要發芽， 又長枝條，像新栽的樹一樣。
it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.
10 但人死亡而消滅； 他氣絕，竟在何處呢？
But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.
11 海中的水絕盡， 江河消散乾涸。
For the sea wastes in [length of] time, and a river fails and is dried up.
12 人也是如此，躺下不再起來， 等到天沒有了，仍不得復醒， 也不得從睡中喚醒。
And man that has lain down [in death] shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.
For oh that you had kept me in the grave, and had hidden me until your wrath should cease, and you should set me a time in which you would remember me! (Sheol h7585)
14 人若死了豈能再活呢？ 我只要在我一切爭戰的日子， 等我被釋放的時候來到。
For if a man should die, shall he live [again], having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?
15 你呼叫，我便回答； 你手所做的，你必羨慕。
Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: but do not you reject the work of your hands.
16 但如今你數點我的腳步， 豈不窺察我的罪過嗎？
But you have numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape you?
17 我的過犯被你封在囊中， 也縫嚴了我的罪孽。
An you have sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.
18 山崩變為無有； 磐石挪開原處。
And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place.
19 水流消磨石頭， 所流溢的洗去地上的塵土； 你也照樣滅絕人的指望。
The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong [overflow] a heap of the earth: and you destroy the hope of man.
20 你攻擊人常常得勝，使他去世； 你改變他的容貌，叫他往而不回。
You drive him to an end, and he is gone: you set your face against him, and send him away;
21 他兒子得尊榮，他也不知道， 降為卑，他也不覺得。
and though his children be multiplied, he knows [it] not; and if they be few, he is not aware.
22 但知身上疼痛， 心中悲哀。
But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.
