Job 17
1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
わが氣息は已にくさり 我日すでに盡なんとし墳墓われを待つ
2 Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
まことに嘲弄者等わが傍に在り 我目は彼らの辨爭ふを常に見ざるを得ず
3 Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me?
願くは質を賜ふて汝みづから我の保證となりたまへ 誰か他にわが手をうつ者あらんや
4 For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
汝彼らの心を閉て悟るところ無らしめたまへり 必ず彼らをして愈らしめたまはじ
5 He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
朋友を交付して掠奪に遭しむる者は其子等の目潰るべし
6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.
彼われを世の民の笑柄とならしめたまふ 我は面に唾せらるべき者となれり
7 Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.
かつまた我目は憂愁によりて昏み 肢體は凡て影のごとし
8 Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.
義しき者は之に驚き 無辜者は邪曲なる者を見て憤ほる
9 Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger.
然ながら義しき者はその道を堅く持ち 手に潔淨き者はますます力を得るなり
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall not find a wise man among you.
請ふ汝ら皆ふたたび來れ 我は汝らの中に一人も智き者あるを見ざるなり
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
わが日は已に過ぎ わが計る所わが心に冀ふ所は已に敗れたり
12 They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.
彼ら夜を晝に變ふ 黒暗の前に光明ちかづく
13 If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness; (Sheol h7585)
我もし俟つところ有ば是わが家たるべき陰府なるのみ 我は黒暗にわが牀を展ぶ (Sheol h7585)
14 If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';
われ朽腐に向ひては汝はわが父なりと言ひ 蛆に向ひては汝は我母わが姉妹なりと言ふ
15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
然ばわが望はいづくにかある 我望は誰かこれを見る者あらん
