Job 31
1 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.
我與眼睛立約， 怎能戀戀瞻望處女呢？
2 For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?
從至上的上帝所得之分， 從至高全能者所得之業是甚麼呢？
3 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?
豈不是禍患臨到不義的， 災害臨到作孽的呢？
4 Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?
上帝豈不是察看我的道路， 數點我的腳步呢？
5 If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:
我若與虛謊同行， 腳若追隨詭詐； （
6 Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.
我若被公道的天平稱度， 使上帝可以知道我的純正；）
7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:
我的腳步若偏離正路， 我的心若隨着我的眼目， 若有玷污粘在我手上；
8 Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.
就願我所種的有別人吃， 我田所產的被拔出來。
9 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend’s door:
我若受迷惑，向婦人起淫念， 在鄰舍的門外蹲伏，
10 Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.
就願我的妻子給別人推磨， 別人也與她同室。
11 For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.
因為這是大罪， 是審判官當罰的罪孽。
12 It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.
這本是火焚燒，直到毀滅， 必拔除我所有的家產。
13 If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:
我的僕婢與我爭辯的時候， 我若藐視不聽他們的情節；
14 For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?
上帝興起，我怎樣行呢？ 他察問，我怎樣回答呢？
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?
造我在腹中的，不也是造他嗎？ 將他與我摶在腹中的豈不是一位嗎？
16 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:
我若不容貧寒人得其所願， 或叫寡婦眼中失望，
17 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:
或獨自吃我一點食物， 孤兒沒有與我同吃； （
18 (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother’s womb: )
從幼年時孤兒與我同長，好像父子一樣； 我從出母腹就扶助 寡婦。）
19 If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:
我若見人因無衣死亡， 或見窮乏人身無遮蓋；
20 If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:
我若不使他因我羊的毛得暖， 為我祝福；
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:
我若在城門口見有幫助我的， 舉手攻擊孤兒；
22 Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.
情願我的肩頭從缺盆骨脫落， 我的膀臂從羊矢骨折斷。
23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.
因上帝降的災禍使我恐懼； 因他的威嚴，我不能妄為。
24 If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:
我若以黃金為指望， 對精金說：你是我的倚靠；
25 If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.
我若因財物豐裕， 因我手多得資財而歡喜；
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness:
我若見太陽發光， 明月行在空中，
27 And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:
心就暗暗被引誘， 口便親手；
28 Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.
這也是審判官當罰的罪孽， 又是我背棄在上的上帝。
29 If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.
我若見恨我的遭報就歡喜， 見他遭災便高興； （
30 For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.
我沒有容口犯罪， 咒詛他的生命；）
31 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?
若我帳棚的人未嘗說， 誰不以主人的食物吃飽呢？ （
32 The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.
從來我沒有容客旅在街上住宿， 卻開門迎接行路的人；）
33 If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.
我若像亞當 遮掩我的過犯， 將罪孽藏在懷中；
34 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.
因懼怕大眾， 又因宗族藐視我使我驚恐， 以致閉口無言，杜門不出；
35 Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,
惟願有一位肯聽我！ （看哪，在這裏有我所劃的押， 願全能者回答我！）
36 That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?
願那敵我者所寫的狀詞在我這裏！ 我必帶在肩上，又綁在頭上為冠冕。
37 At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.
我必向他述說我腳步的數目， 必如君王進到他面前。
38 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:
我若奪取田地，這地向我喊冤， 犂溝一同哭泣；
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof:
我若吃地的出產不給價值， 或叫原主喪命；
40 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.
願這地長蒺藜代替麥子， 長惡草代替大麥。 約伯的話說完了。
