約伯記 21
1 約伯回答說：
Then Job answered and said,
2 你們要細聽我的言語， 就算是你們安慰我。
“Listen carefully to my words, and let this be the comfort you offer to me.
3 請寬容我，我又要說話； 說了以後，任憑你們嗤笑吧！
Put up with me, and I also will speak; after I have spoken, mock on.
4 我豈是向人訴冤？ 為何不焦急呢？
As for me, is my complaint to a person? Why should I not be impatient?
5 你們要看着我而驚奇， 用手摀口。
Look at me and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6 我每逢思想，心就驚惶， 渾身戰兢。
When I think about my sufferings, I am terrified, and trembling seizes my body.
7 惡人為何存活， 享大壽數，勢力強盛呢？
Why do wicked people continue to live, become old, and grow mighty in power?
8 他們眼見兒孫， 和他們一同堅立。
Their descendants are established with them in their sight, and their offspring are established before their eyes.
9 他們的家宅平安無懼； 上帝的杖也不加在他們身上。
Their houses are safe from fear; neither is the rod of God on them.
10 他們的公牛孳生而不斷絕； 母牛下犢而不掉胎。
Their bull breeds; it does not fail to do so; their cow gives birth and does not lose her calf prematurely.
11 他們打發小孩子出去，多如羊群； 他們的兒女踴躍跳舞。
They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
12 他們隨着琴鼓歌唱， 又因簫聲歡喜。
They sing to the tambourine and harp and rejoice with the music of the flute.
They spend their days in prosperity, and they go down quietly to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
14 他們對上帝說：離開我們吧！ 我們不願曉得你的道。
They say to God, 'Depart from us for we do not wish any knowledge of your ways.
15 全能者是誰，我們何必事奉他呢？ 求告他有甚麼益處呢？
What is the Almighty, that we should worship him? What advantage would we get if we prayed to him?'
16 看哪，他們亨通不在乎自己； 惡人所謀定的離我好遠。
See, is not their prosperity in their own hands? I have nothing to do with the advice of wicked people.
17 惡人的燈何嘗熄滅？ 患難何嘗臨到他們呢？ 上帝何嘗發怒，向他們分散災禍呢？
How often is it that the lamp of wicked people is put out, or that their calamity comes upon them? How often does it happen that God distributes sorrows to them in his anger?
18 他們何嘗像風前的碎詡， 如暴風颳去的糠詷呢？
How often is it that they become like stubble before the wind or like chaff that the storm carries away?
19 你們說：上帝為惡人的兒女積蓄罪孽； 我說：不如本人受報，好使他親自知道。
You say, 'God lays up one's guilt for his children to pay.' Let him pay it himself, so that he might know his guilt.
20 願他親眼看見自己敗亡， 親自飲全能者的忿怒。
Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 他的歲月既盡， 他還顧他本家嗎？
For what does he care about his family after him when the number of his months is cut off?
22 上帝既審判那在高位的， 誰能將知識教訓他呢？
Can anyone teach God knowledge since he judges even those who are high?
23 有人至死身體強壯， 盡得平靖安逸；
One man dies in his full strength, being completely quiet and at ease.
24 他的奶桶充滿， 他的骨髓滋潤。
His body is full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moist.
25 有人至死心中痛苦， 終身未嘗福樂的滋味；
Another man dies in bitterness of soul, one who has never experienced anything good.
26 他們一樣躺臥在塵土中， 都被蟲子遮蓋。
They lie down alike in the dust; the worms cover them both.
27 我知道你們的意思， 並誣害我的計謀。
See, I know your thoughts, and the ways in which you wish to wrong me.
28 你們說：霸者的房屋在哪裏？ 惡人住過的帳棚在哪裏？
For you say, 'Where now is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked man once lived?'
29 你們豈沒有詢問過路的人嗎？ 不知道他們所引的證據嗎？
Have you never asked traveling people? Do you not know the evidence they can tell,
30 就是惡人在禍患的日子得存留， 在發怒的日子得逃脫。
that the wicked man is kept from the day of calamity, and that he is led away from the day of wrath?
31 他所行的，有誰當面給他說明？ 他所做的，有誰報應他呢？
Who will condemn the wicked man's way to his face? Who will repay him for what he has done?
32 然而他要被抬到塋地； 並有人看守墳墓。
Yet he will be borne to the grave; men will keep watch over his tomb.
33 他要以谷中的土塊為甘甜； 在他以先去的無數， 在他以後去的更多。
The clods of the valley will be sweet to him; all people will follow after him, as there were innumerable people before him.
34 你們對答的話中既都錯謬， 怎麼徒然安慰我呢？
How then do you comfort me with nonsense, since in your answers there is nothing but falsehood?”
