Job 26
1 Then Job made answer and said,
そこでヨブは答えて言った、
2 How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
「あなたは力のない者をどれほど助けたかしれない。気力のない腕をどれほど救ったかしれない。
3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
知恵のない者をどれほど教えたかしれない。悟りをどれほど多く示したかしれない。
4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
あなたはだれの助けによって言葉をだしたのか。あなたから出たのはだれの霊なのか。
5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
亡霊は水およびその中に住むものの下に震う。
神の前では陰府も裸である。滅びの穴もおおい隠すものはない。 (Sheol h7585)
7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
彼は北の天を空間に張り、地を何もない所に掛けられる。
8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
彼は水を濃い雲の中に包まれるが、その下の雲は裂けない。
9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
彼は月のおもてをおおい隠して、雲をその上にのべ、
10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
水のおもてに円を描いて、光とやみとの境とされた。
11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
彼が戒めると、天の柱は震い、かつ驚く。
12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
彼はその力をもって海を静め、その知恵をもってラハブを打ち砕き、
13 By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
その息をもって天を晴れわたらせ、その手をもって逃げるへびを突き通される。
14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.
見よ、これらはただ彼の道の端にすぎない。われわれが彼について聞く所はいかにかすかなささやきであろう。しかし、その力のとどろきに至っては、だれが悟ることができるか」。
