Job 21
1 Then Job answered, and said:
約伯回答說：
2 Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.
你們且聽一聽我的話! 這也算是你們給我的安慰。
3 Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
請讓我發言，我說完後，任你們笑罵。
4 Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?
我豈是抱怨人﹖我失了忍耐，難道沒有理由﹖
5 Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
你們注意聽我，必要吃驚，且要用手堵住口。
6 As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
甚至我一回想，我就恐怖，全身戰慄。
7 Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?
惡人為何享受高壽而勢力強大﹖
8 Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children’s children in their sight.
他們在世時，子孫昌盛，親眼看見子子孫孫。
9 Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.
他們的住宅平安，無所畏懼，天主的棍杖也不加在他們身上。
10 Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.
他們的公牛交尾，無不成功；母牛產子，決無流產。
11 Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.
他們使孩子跑出像羊群，子女跳躍如麋鹿。
12 They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
他們伴著手鼓與豎琴歌唱，隨著笛聲歡呼。
他們幸福地度過天年，平安地降入陰府。 (Sheol h7585)
14 Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
但他們曾向天主說：「離開我們! 我們不願知道你的道路。
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
全能者是誰，竟叫我們事奉他﹖我們祈求他有什麼好處﹖」
16 Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
看啊! 他們的幸福，豈不在他們掌握中﹖惡人的思想豈不離他很遠﹖
17 How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?
惡人的燈有多少次熄滅過﹖災禍有多少次降在他們身上﹖天主何嘗因忿怒而消滅他們﹖
18 They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
使他們好像被風吹的碎湝﹖好像被暴風捲去的糠秕﹖
19 God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.
難道天主要向他的兒子討罪債﹖其實應向他本人報復，叫他覺悟!
20 His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
叫他親眼看見自己的毀滅，親自飲下全能者的義怒之杯。
21 For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?
他既逝去，他本人的歲月已絕，他的家庭對他還有什麼相干﹖
22 Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?
天主既審判天上者，人豈能教給他什麼智識﹖
23 One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.
有人到死一無所缺，享盡了平安幸福。
24 His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
他的腰部充滿脂肪，他的骨髓潤澤豐盈；
25 But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:
但有人卻至死心靈酸苦，一生毫無福樂；
26 And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.
他們卻一同埋於塵土，為蛆蟲所掩蓋。
27 Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
我確知你們的思想，以及對我所籌劃的陰謀。
28 For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
你們要問：「霸王的家在那裏﹖惡人住的帳幕在何處﹖」
29 Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.
你們怎麼不問過路的人﹖難道你們不承認他們的證據﹖
30 Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.
「惡人在毀滅之日不受害，在憤怒之日會得救。」
31 Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
他的動作，誰敢當面指摘﹖他的行為，誰能報復﹖
32 He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.
他最後被抬入墳墓，且親自守護自己的墓地。
33 He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.
谷中的土壤，他感覺甘美；眾人都跟他而去，但在他前面的人，更不可勝數。
34 How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?
你們為何說空話來安慰我﹖你們的答話顯然只是欺詐!
