Job 21
1 Then Job answered:
ヨブこたへて曰く
2 “Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
請ふ汝等わが言を謹んで聽き 之をもて汝らの慰藉に代よ
3 Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
先われに容して言しめよ 我が言る後なんぢ嘲るも可し
4 Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
わが怨言は世の人の上につきて起れる者ならんや 我なんぞ氣をいらだつ可らざらんや
5 Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
なんぢら我を視て驚き手を口にあてよ
6 When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
われ思ひまはせば畏しくなりて身體しきりに戰慄く
7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
惡き人何とて生ながらへ 老かつ勢力強くなるや
8 Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
その子等はその周圍にありてその前に堅く立ち その子孫もその目の前に堅く立べし
9 Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
またその家は平安にして畏懼なく 神の杖その上に臨まじ
10 Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
その牡牛は種を與へて過らず その牝牛は子を產てそこなふ事なし
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
彼等はその少き者等を外に出すこと群のごとし その子等は舞をどる
12 singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
彼等は鼓と琴とをもて歌ひ 笛の音に由て樂み
その日を幸福に暮し まばたくまに陰府にくだる (Sheol h7585)
14 Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
然はあれども彼等は神に言らく我らを離れ賜へ 我らは汝の道をしることを好まず
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
全能者は何者なれば我らこれに事ふべき 我儕これに祈るとも何の益を得んやと
16 Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
視よ彼らの福祿は彼らの力に由にあらざるなり 惡人の希圖は我の與する所にあらず
17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
惡人のその燈火を滅るる事幾度ありしか その滅亡のこれに臨む事 神の怒りて之に艱苦を蒙らせたまふ事幾度有しか
18 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
かれら風の前の藁の如く 暴風に吹さらるる籾殼の如くなること幾度有しか
19 It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
神かれの愆を積たくはへてその子孫に報いたまふか 之を彼自己の身に報い知しむるに如ず
20 Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
かれをして自らその滅亡を目に視させ かつ全能者の震怒を飮しめよ
21 For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
その月の數すでに盡るに於ては何ぞその後の家に關はる所あらん
22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
神は天にある者等をさへ審判たまふなれば誰か能これに知識を敎へんや
23 One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
或人は繁榮を極め全く平穩にかつ安康にして死に
24 His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
その器に乳充ち その骨の髓は潤ほへり
25 Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
また或人は心を苦しめて死し 終に福祉をあぢはふる事なし
26 But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
是等は倶に齊しく塵に臥して蛆におほはる
27 Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
我まことに汝らの思念を知り 汝らが我を攻撃んとするの計略を知る
28 For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
なんぢらは言ふ王侯の家は何に在る 惡人の住所は何にあると
29 Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
汝らは路往く人々に詢ざりしや 彼等の證據を曉らざるや
30 Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
すなはち滅亡の日に惡人遺され 烈しき怒の日に惡人たづさへ出さる
31 Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
誰か能かれに打向ひて彼の行爲を指示さんや 誰か能彼の爲たる所を彼に報ゆることを爲ん
32 He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
彼は舁れて墓に到り 塚の上にて守護ることを爲す
33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
谷の土塊も彼には快し 一切の人その後に從ふ 其前に行る者も數へがたし
34 So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
旣に是の如くなるに汝等なんぞ徒に我を慰さめんとするや 汝らの答ふる所はただ虚僞のみ
