Job 26

1 Then answered Job, and said,

ヨブこたへて曰く

2 What assistance hast thou given to the powerless? [how] hast thou helped the arm without strength?

なんぢ能力なき者を如何に助けしや 氣力なきものを如何に救ひしや

3 How hast thou counselled the unwise? and what sound wisdom hast thou made known so plentifully?

智慧なき者を如何に誨へしや 穎悟の道を如何に多く示ししや

4 To whom hast thou told words? and whose spirit came from thee?

なんぢ誰にむかひて言語を出ししや なんぢより出しは誰が靈なるや

5 The departed are called into being beneath the waters, and their inhabitants.

陰靈水またその中に居る者の下に慄ふ

6 Naked is the nether world before him, and there is no covering for the place of corruption. (Sheol h7585)

かれの御前には陰府も顯露なり 滅亡の坑も蔽ひ匿す所なし (Sheol h7585)

7 He stretched out the north over empty space; he suspended the earth on nothing;

彼は北の天を虚空に張り 地を物なき所に懸けたまふ

8 He bound up the waters in his clouds; and the cloud bursteth not under their weight;

水を濃雲の中に包みたまふてその下の雲裂ず

9 He closed up the surface of his throne, spreading over it his cloud;

御寳座の面を隱して雲をその上に展べ

10 A fixed limit he compassed off over the face of the waters, for the division of the light and darkness.

水の面に界を設けて光と暗とに限を立たまふ

11 The pillars of heaven tremble greatly, and are astounded at his rebuke.

かれ叱咤たまへば天の柱震ひかつ怖る

12 By his power he split in pieces the sea, and by his understanding he crushed [its] pride:

その權能をもて海を靜め その智慧をもてラハブを撃碎き

13 By his breath the heavens [acquired] beauty; his hand hath created the flying serpent.

その氣嘘をもて天を輝かせ 其手をもて逃る蛇を衝とほしたまふ

14 Lo, these are ends of his ways; for how slight a whisper is heard [by us] of him! but the thunder of his mighty deeds who can understand?

視よ是等はただその御工作の端なるのみ 我らが聞ところの者は如何にも微細なる耳語ならずや 然どその權能の雷轟に至りては誰かこれを曉らんや