Job 1
1 There was a man in the lande of Vz called Iob, and this man was an vpright and iust man, one that feared God, and eschewed euill.
從前在胡茲地方，有一個人名叫約伯，為人十全十美，生性正直，敬畏天主，遠離邪惡。
2 And he had seue sonnes, and three daughters.
他生了七個兒子，三個女兒。
3 His substance also was seuen thousande sheepe, and three thousand camels, and fiue hundreth yoke of oxen, and fiue hundreth shee asses, and his family was very great, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East.
家畜有七千隻羊，三千駱駝，五百對牛，五百母驢，且有很多僕人。此人是當時東方人民中最偉大的人物。
4 And his sonnes went and banketted in their houses, euery one his day, and sent, and called their three sisters to eate and to drinke with them.
他的每個兒子，按日輪流在家中設宴，且派人邀請他們的三個姊妹來一同宴飲。
5 And when the dayes of their banketting were gone about, Iob sent, and sanctified them, and rose vp early in the morning, and offred burnt offrings according to the nomber of them all. For Iob thought, It may be that my sonnes haue sinned, and blasphemed God in their hearts: thus did Iob euery day.
及至宴飲的日子輪流一週，約伯總是派人召集他們來聖潔他們，清早起來照子女的數目，獻上全燔祭品說：「恐怕我的兒子犯了罪，心中詛咒了天主。」約伯常常如此行事。
6 Nowe on a day when the children of God came and stoode before the Lord, Satan came also among them.
有一天，天主的眾子都來侍立在上主面前，撒殫也夾在他們當中。
7 Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Whence commest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, saying, From compassing the earth to and from, and from walking in it.
上主問撒殫說：「你從那裏來﹖」撒殫回答上主說：「我走遍了世界，周遊了各地回來。」
8 And the Lord saide vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill?
上主對撒殫說：「你曾留心注意到我的僕人約伯沒有﹖因為世上沒有一個像他那樣十全十美，生性正直，敬畏天主，遠避邪惡的人。」
9 Then Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Doeth Iob feare God for nought?
撒殫回答上主說：「約伯那裏是無緣無故敬畏天主的呢﹖
10 Hast thou not made an hedge about him and about his house, and about all that he hath on euery side? thou hast blessed the worke of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
你不是四面保護他、他的家庭和他所有的一切麼﹖並且凡是他親手做的，你都祝福了；你使他的牲畜在地上繁殖增多。
11 But stretch out now thine hand and touch all that he hath, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.
但是你若伸手打擊他所有的一切，他必定當面詛咒你。」
12 Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Lo, all that he hath is in thine hand: onely vpon himselfe shalt thou not stretch out thine hand. So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord.
上主對撒殫說：「看，他所有的一切，都隨你處理，只是不要伸手加害他的身體。」撒殫遂離開天主走了。
13 And on a day, when his sonnes and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,
有一天，他的兒子同他的女兒，正在長兄家裏歡宴飲酒的時候，
14 There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places,
有個帶信的人跑來向約伯說：「牛正在耕田，母驢在一旁吃草的時候，
15 And the Shabeans came violently, and tooke them: yea, they haue slayne the seruants with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.
舍巴人突然闖來將牲口搶了去，用刀將那些僕人殺了，只有我一人逃脫，來向你報告。」
16 And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayde, The fire of God is fallen from the heauen, and hath burnt vp the sheepe and the seruants, and deuoured them: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.
這人還在報告時，另一個人跑來說：「天主的火由天降下，將羊群和僕人都燒死了，只有我一人逃脫，來向你報告。」
17 And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayd, The Caldeans set on three bands, and fell vpon the camels, and haue taken them, and haue slayne the seruantes with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.
這人還在報告時，另一個人跑來說：「加色丁人分成三隊闖入駱駝群，將駱駝搶走了，用刀將僕人殺了，只有我一人逃脫，來向你報告。」
18 And whiles he was yet speaking, came an other, and sayd, Thy sonnes, and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,
這人還在報告時，另一個人跑來說：「你的兒女正在長兄家宴飲的時候，
19 And behold, there came a great wind from beyonde the wildernesse, and smote the foure corners of the house, which fel vpon the children, and they are dead, and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.
忽然從曠野那邊吹來一陣颶風，颳倒了房屋的四角，壓死了你的孩子，只有我一人幸免，來向你報告。」
20 Then Iob arose, and rent his garment, and shaued his head, and fel downe vpon the ground, and worshipped,
約伯就起來，撕裂了自己的外氅，剃去頭髮，俯伏在地叩拜，
21 And sayd, Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, and naked shall I returne thither: the Lord hath giuen, and the Lord hath taken it: blessed be the Name of the Lord.
說「我赤身脫離母胎，也要赤身歸去；上主賜的，上主收回。願上主的名受到讚美! 」
22 In all this did not Iob sinne, nor charge God foolishly.
就這一切事而論，約伯並沒有犯罪，也沒有說抱怨天主的話。
