Job 17
1 MY breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
我的心靈消耗，我的日子滅盡； 墳墓為我預備好了。
2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
真有戲笑我的在我這裏， 我眼常見他們惹動我。
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
願主拿憑據給我，自己為我作保。 在你以外誰肯與我擊掌呢？
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
因你使他們心不明理， 所以你必不高舉他們。
5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
控告他的朋友、以朋友為可搶奪的， 連他兒女的眼睛也要失明。
6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
上帝使我作了民中的笑談； 他們也吐唾沫在我臉上。
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
我的眼睛因憂愁昏花； 我的百體好像影兒。
8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
正直人因此必驚奇； 無辜的人要興起攻擊不敬虔之輩。
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
然而，義人要持守所行的道； 手潔的人要力上加力。
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
至於你們眾人，可以再來辯論吧！ 你們中間，我找不着一個智慧人。
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
我的日子已經過了； 我的謀算、我心所想望的已經斷絕。
12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
他們以黑夜為白晝， 說：亮光近乎黑暗。
我若盼望陰間為我的房屋， 若下榻在黑暗中， (Sheol h7585)
14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
若對朽壞說：你是我的父； 對蟲說：你是我的母親姊妹；
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
這樣，我的指望在哪裏呢？ 我所指望的誰能看見呢？
