Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu answered, and said,

エリフまた答へて曰く

2 What is this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before the Lord?

なんぢは言ふ 我が義しきは神に愈れりと なんぢ之を正しとおもふや

3 That thou said, What advantage will it be to thee? And, What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?

すなはち汝いへらく 是は我に何の益あらんや 罪を犯すに較ぶれば何の愈るところか有んと

4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

われ言詞をもて汝およびなんぢにそへる汝の友等に答へん

5 Look to the heavens, and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.

天を仰ぎて見よ 汝の上なる高き空を望め

6 If thou have sinned, what do thou effect against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what do thou to him?

なんぢ罪を犯すとも神に何の害か有ん 愆を熾んにするとも神に何を爲えんや

7 If thou be righteous, what do thou give him? Or what does he receive of thy hand?

汝正義かるとも神に何を與るを得んや 神なんぢの手より何をか受たまはん

8 Thy wickedness is a man as thou are, and thy righteousness is a son of man.

なんぢの惡は只なんぢに同じき人を損ぜん而已 なんぢの善は只人の子を益せんのみ

9 Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

暴虐の甚だしきに因て叫び 權勢ある者の腕に壓れて呼はる人々あり

10 But none says, Where is God my maker who gives songs in the night,

然れども一人として我を造れる神は何處にいますやといふ者なし 彼は人をして夜の中に歌を歌ふに至らしめ

11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

地の獸畜よりも善くわれらを教へ 空の鳥よりも我らを智からしめたまふ者なり

12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

惡き者等の驕傲ぶるに因て斯のごとく人々叫べども應ふる者あらず

13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, nor will the Almighty regard it.

虚しき語を神かならず之を聽たまはず 全能者これを顧みたまはじ

14 How much less when thou say thou do not behold him. The case is before him, and thou wait for him!

汝は我かれを見たてまつらずと言といへども審判は神の前にあり この故に汝彼を待べきなり

15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, nor does he greatly regard folly,

今かれ震怒をもて罰することを爲ず 罪愆を深く心に留たまはざる(が如くなる)に因て

16 so Job opens his mouth in vanity. He multiplies words without knowledge.

ヨブ口を啓きて虚しき事を述べ無知の言語を繁くす