Job 35

1 Moreover Eliu spoke these words:

エリフまた答へて曰く

2 Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?

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 For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?

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 Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends 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 up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.

天を仰ぎて見よ 汝の上なる高き空を望め

6 If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against 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 And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall 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 may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the 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 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.

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 And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given 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 teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.

地の獸畜よりも善くわれらを敎へ 空の鳥よりも我らを智からしめたまふ者なり

12 There shall they cry, and he will not hear, 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 God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.

虚しき語は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 Yea when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before him, and expect 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 For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.

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 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth 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