Job 5
1 Do but call: is there one that will answer thee? and to whom of the saints wilt thou turn thyself?
你且呼求，有誰答應你？ 諸聖者之中，你轉向哪一位呢？
2 For vexation will prove death to a foolish man, and jealousy will slay the simple.
忿怒害死愚妄人； 嫉妒殺死癡迷人。
3 I have myself seen the foolish taking root; but I suddenly held his habitation as accursed.
我曾見愚妄人扎下根， 但我忽然咒詛他的住處。
4 His children are far from help, and men crush them in the gate, with no one to deliver them.
他的兒女遠離穩妥的地步， 在城門口被壓，並無人搭救。
5 [He it is] whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber snatcheth eagerly after their substance.
他的莊稼有飢餓的人吃盡了， 就是在荊棘裏的也搶去了； 他的財寶有網羅張口吞滅了。
6 For wrong doth not come forth out of the dust, neither doth trouble grow up out of the ground;
禍患原不是從土中出來； 患難也不是從地裏發生。
7 But man is born unto trouble, as young birds take up their flight.
人生在世必遇患難， 如同火星飛騰。
8 I, however, would have besought God, and unto God would I have committed my cause;
至於我，我必仰望上帝， 把我的事情託付他。
9 Who doth great things which are unsearchable, marvelous things till they are without number;
他行大事不可測度， 行奇事不可勝數：
10 Who giveth rain upon the surface of the earth, and sendeth out waters over the face of the fields;
降雨在地上， 賜水於田裏；
11 To set up the lowly on high, that those who mourn may rise high to happiness;
將卑微的安置在高處， 將哀痛的舉到穩妥之地；
12 [But] who frustrateth the plans of the crafty, so that their hands cannot execute their well-devised counsel;
破壞狡猾人的計謀， 使他們所謀的不得成就。
13 Who catcheth the wise in their own craftiness; and the advise of the perverse is hastened on headlong;
他叫有智慧的中了自己的詭計， 使狡詐人的計謀速速滅亡。
14 By day they meet with darkness, and as though it were night they grope about in the noon of day;
他們白晝遇見黑暗， 午間摸索如在夜間。
15 But who saveth from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty, the needy one:
上帝拯救窮乏人 脫離他們口中的刀和強暴人的手。
16 And so cometh to the indigent hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
這樣，貧寒的人有指望， 罪孽之輩必塞口無言。
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God admonisheth: despise then not the correction of the Almighty.
上帝所懲治的人是有福的！ 所以你不可輕看全能者的管教。
18 For he it is that woundeth, and bindeth up: he smiteth, and his hands do heal.
因為他打破，又纏裹； 他擊傷，用手醫治。
19 In six distresses will he deliver thee; and in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
你六次遭難，他必救你； 就是七次，災禍也無法害你。
20 In famine he redeemeth thee from death; and in war from the power of the sword.
在饑荒中，他必救你脫離死亡； 在爭戰中，他必救你脫離刀劍的權力。
21 Against the scourge of the tongue shall thou he hidden; and thou needest not be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
你必被隱藏，不受口舌之害； 災殃臨到，你也不懼怕。
22 At destruction and famine canst thou laugh; and thou needest not have any fear of the beasts of the earth.
你遇見災害饑饉，就必嬉笑； 地上的野獸，你也不懼怕。
23 For with the stones of the field shalt thou have thy covenant; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
因為你必與田間的石頭立約； 田裏的野獸也必與你和好。
24 And thou shalt know that there is peace in thy tent; and thou wilt look over thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing.
你必知道你帳棚平安， 要查看你的羊圈，一無所失；
25 And thou shalt know that thy seed is numerous, and thy offspring as the herbage of the earth.
也必知道你的後裔將來發達， 你的子孫像地上的青草。
26 Thon wilt go in a ripe age unto the grave, as a shock of corn is carried home in its season.
你必壽高年邁才歸墳墓， 好像禾捆到時收藏。
27 Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is: hear it, and do thou note it well for thyself.
這理，我們已經考察，本是如此。 你須要聽，要知道是與自己有益。
