Job 35

1 Then commenced Elihu, and said,

エリフまた答へて曰く

2 Dost thou deem this to be just, that thou hast said, “My righteousness is more than God's?”

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 For thou sayest, “What benefit will it be unto thee? what more profit shall I have, 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 truly reply unto thee with words, and unto thy friends 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 gaze on 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 sin, what dost thou effect against him? and if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do 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 doth he accept out 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 A man like thyself thy wickedness may reach, and a son of earth thy righteousness.

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 [the wicked] cause men to cry: these complain aloud because 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 [man] saith not, Where is God my maker, who bestoweth joyful songs even 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 the heavens?

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 do they cry, but he answereth not: 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 Only what is false will God not hear, nor 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 Although thou sayest, thou canst not see him: yet the decision is before him; and do thou wait 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 But now, because his anger hath punished nothing, shall he not greatly take cognizance of the multitude of sins?

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 openeth wide his mouth for nought: without knowledge he heapeth up words.

ヨブ口を啓きて虚しき事を述べ無知の言語を繁くす