約伯記 17
1 我的心靈消耗，我的日子滅盡； 墳墓為我預備好了。
I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain [it] not.
2 真有戲笑我的在我這裏， 我眼常見他們惹動我。
Weary I entreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods.
3 願主拿憑據給我，自己為我作保。 在你以外誰肯與我擊掌呢？
Who is this? let him join hands with me.
4 因你使他們心不明理， 所以你必不高舉他們。
For you have hid their heart from wisdom; therefore you shall not exalt them.
5 控告他的朋友、以朋友為可搶奪的， 連他兒女的眼睛也要失明。
He shall promise mischief to [his] companions: but [their] eyes have failed for [their] children.
6 上帝使我作了民中的笑談； 他們也吐唾沫在我臉上。
But you has made me a byword amount the nations, and I am become a scorn to them.
7 我的眼睛因憂愁昏花； 我的百體好像影兒。
For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.
8 正直人因此必驚奇； 無辜的人要興起攻擊不敬虔之輩。
Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor.
9 然而，義人要持守所行的道； 手潔的人要力上加力。
But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.
10 至於你們眾人，可以再來辯論吧！ 你們中間，我找不着一個智慧人。
Howbeit, do you all strengthen [yourselves] and come now, for I do not find truth in you.
11 我的日子已經過了； 我的謀算、我心所想望的已經斷絕。
My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken.
12 他們以黑夜為白晝， 說：亮光近乎黑暗。
I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. (Sheol h7585)
14 若對朽壞說：你是我的父； 對蟲說：你是我的母親姊妹；
I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption [to be] my mother and sister.
15 這樣，我的指望在哪裏呢？ 我所指望的誰能看見呢？
Where then is yet my hope? or [where] shall I see my good?
