Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu answered and said:

エリフまた答へて曰く

2 Thinkest thou this to be thy right, or sayest thou: 'I am righteousness before 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 That thou inquirest: 'What advantage will it be unto Thee?' And: 'What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

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 I will give thee answer, and thy companions 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 unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.

天を仰ぎて見よ 汝の上なる高き空を望め

6 If thou hast sinned, what doest thou against Him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto 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 If thou be righteous, what givest thou Him? Or what receiveth He 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 concerneth a man as thou art; and thy righteousness a 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 cry out; they cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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 But none saith: 'Where is God my Maker, who giveth 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 maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?'

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 they cry, but none giveth answer, 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 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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 sayest thou canst not see Him — the cause is before Him; therefore wait thou for 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 And now, is it for nought that He punished in His anger? And hath He not full knowledge of arrogance?

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 But Job doth open his mouth in vanity; he 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