Job 23
1 Then Job answered and said,
ヨブこたへて曰く
2 Yes, I know that pleading is out of my reach; and his hand has been made heavy upon my groaning.
我は今日にても尚つぶやきて服せず わが禍災はわが嘆息よりも重し
3 Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end [of the matter]?
ねがはくは神をたづねて何處にか遇まつるを知り其御座に參いたらんことを
4 And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments.
我この愁訴をその御前に陳べ口を極めて辨論はん
5 And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me, and I would perceive what he would tell me.
我その我に答へ給ふ言を知り また其われに言たまふ所を了らん
6 Though he should come on me in [his] great strength, then he would not threaten me;
かれ大なる能をもて我と爭ひたまはんや 然らじ反つて我を眷みたまふべし
7 for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgment to an end.
彼處にては正義人かれと辨爭ふことを得 斯せば我を鞫く者の手を永く免かるべし
8 For if I shall go first, and exist no longer, still what do I know [concerning] the latter end?
しかるに我東に往くも彼いまさず 西に往くも亦見たてまつらず
9 When he wrought on the left hand, then I observed [it] not: his right hand shall encompass me but I shall not see [it].
北に工作きたまへども遇まつらず 南に隱れ居たまへば望むべからず
10 For he knows already my way; and he has tried me as gold.
わが平生の道は彼知りたまふ 彼われを試みたまはば我は金のごとくして出きたらん
11 And I will go forth according to his commandments, for I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments,
わが足は彼の歩履に堅く隨へり 我はかれの道を守りて離れざりき
12 neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom.
我はかれの唇の命令に違はず 我が法よりも彼の口の言語を重ぜり
13 And if too he has thus judged, who is he that has contradicted, for he has both willed [a thing] and done it.
かれは一に居る者にまします 誰か能かれをして意を變しめん 彼はその心に慾する所をかならず爲たまふ
然ば我に向ひて定めし事を必らず成就たまはん 是のごとき事を多く彼は爲たまふなり
15 Therefore am I troubled at him; and when I was reproved, I thought of him. Therefore let me take good heed before him: I will consider, and be afraid of him.
是故に我かれの前に慄ふ 我考ふれば彼を懼る
16 But the Lord has softened my heart, and the Almighty has troubled me.
神わが心を弱くならしめ 全能者われをして懼れしめたまふ
17 For I knew not that darkness would come upon me, and thick darkness has covered [me] before my face.
かく我は暗の來らぬ先わが面を黒暗の覆ふ前に打絶れざりき
