Job 3
1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
斯て後ヨブ口を啓きて自己の日を詛へり
2 And Job spake, and said,
ヨブすなはち言詞を出して云く
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
我が生れし日亡びうせよ 男子胎にやどれりと言し夜も亦然あれ
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
その日は暗くなれ 神上よりこれを顧みたまはざれ 光これを照す勿れ
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
暗闇および死蔭これを取もどせ 雲これが上をおほえ 日を暗くする者これを懼しめよ
6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
その夜は黑暗の執ふる所となれ 年の日の中に加はらざれ 月の數に入ざれ
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
その夜は孕むこと有ざれ 歡喜の聲その中に興らざれ
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
日を詛ふ者レビヤタンを激發すに巧なる者これを詛へ
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
その夜の晨星は暗かれ その夜には光明を望むも得ざらしめ 又東雲の眼蓋を見ざらしめよ
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
是は我母の胎の戸を闔ずまた我目に憂を見ること無らしめざりしによる
11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
何とて我は胎より死て出ざりしや 何とて胎より出し時に氣息たえざりしや
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
如何なれば膝ありてわれを接しや 如何なれば乳房ありてわれを養ひしや
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
否らずば今は我偃て安んじかつ眠らん 然ばこの身やすらひをり
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
かの荒墟を自己のために築きたりし世の君等臣等と偕にあり
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
かの黄金を有ち白銀を家に充したりし牧伯等と偕にあらん
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
又人しれず墮る胎兒のごとくにして世に出ず また光を見ざる赤子のごとくならん
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
彼處にては惡き者 虐遇を息め倦憊たる者安息を得
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
彼處にては俘囚人みな共に安然に居りて驅使者の聲を聞ず
19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
小き者も大なる者も同じく彼處にあり僕も主の手を離る
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
如何なれば艱難にをる者に光を賜ひ 心苦しむ者に生命をたまひしや
21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
斯る者は死を望むなれどもきたらず これをもとむるは藏れたる寳を掘るよりも甚だし
22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
もし墳墓を尋ねて獲ば大に喜こび樂しむなり
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
その道かくれ神に取籠られをる人に如何なれば光明を賜ふや
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
わが歎息はわが食物に代り我呻吟は水の流れそそぐに似たり
25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
我が戰慄き懼れし者我に臨み我が怖懼れたる者この身に及べり
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
我は安然ならず穩ならず安息を得ず唯艱難のみきたる
