約伯記 19
1 約伯回答說：
Then Job answered and said,
2 你們攪擾我的心， 用言語壓碎我要到幾時呢？
How long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?
3 你們這十次羞辱我； 你們苦待我也不以為恥。
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
4 果真我有錯， 這錯乃是在我。
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5 你們果然要向我誇大， 以我的羞辱為證指責我，
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
6 就該知道是上帝傾覆我， 用網羅圍繞我。
Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], and hath compassed me with his net.
7 我因委曲呼叫，卻不蒙應允； 我呼求，卻不得公斷。
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no judgment.
8 上帝用籬笆攔住我的道路，使我不得經過； 又使我的路徑黑暗。
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and hath set darkness in my paths.
9 他剝去我的榮光， 摘去我頭上的冠冕。
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 他在四圍攻擊我，我便歸於死亡， 將我的指望如樹拔出來。
He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
11 他的忿怒向我發作， 以我為敵人。
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.
12 他的軍旅一齊上來， 修築戰路攻擊我， 在我帳棚的四圍安營。
His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.
13 他把我的弟兄隔在遠處， 使我所認識的全然與我生疏。
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
14 我的親戚與我斷絕； 我的密友都忘記我。
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 在我家寄居的， 和我的使女都以我為外人； 我在他們眼中看為外邦人。
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16 我呼喚僕人， 雖用口求他，他還是不回答。
I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, [though] I entreat him with my mouth.
17 我口的氣味，我妻子厭惡； 我的懇求，我同胞也憎嫌。
My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the children of my [mother’s] womb.
18 連小孩子也藐視我； 我若起來，他們都嘲笑我。
Even young children despise me; if I arise, they speak against me.
19 我的密友都憎惡我； 我平日所愛的人向我翻臉。
All my inward friends abhor me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
20 我的皮肉緊貼骨頭； 我只剩牙皮逃脫了。
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 我朋友啊，可憐我！可憐我！ 因為上帝的手攻擊我。
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22 你們為甚麼彷彿上帝逼迫我， 吃我的肉還以為不足呢？
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 惟願我的言語現在寫上， 都記錄在書上；
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24 用鐵筆鐫刻， 用鉛灌在磐石上，直存到永遠。
That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
25 我知道我的救贖主活着， 末了必站立在地上。
But I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand up at the last upon the earth:
26 我這皮肉滅絕之後， 我必在肉體之外得見上帝。
And after my skin hath been thus destroyed, yet from my flesh shall I see God:
27 我自己要見他， 親眼要看他，並不像外人。 我的心腸在我裏面消滅了！
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. My reins are consumed within me.
28 你們若說：我們逼迫他要何等地重呢？ 惹事的根乃在乎他；
If ye say, How we will persecute him! seeing that the root of the matter is found in me;
29 你們就當懼怕刀劍； 因為忿怒惹動刀劍的刑罰， 使你們知道有報應。
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
