Job 17
1 “My spirit has been destroyed, My days extinguished—graves [are] for me.
我的心靈消耗，我的日子滅盡； 墳墓為我預備好了。
2 If not—mockeries [are] with me. And my eye lodges in their provocations.
真有戲笑我的在我這裏， 我眼常見他們惹動我。
3 Now place my pledge with You; Who is he that strikes hand with me?
願主拿憑據給我，自己為我作保。 在你以外誰肯與我擊掌呢？
4 For You have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore You do not exalt them.
因你使他們心不明理， 所以你必不高舉他們。
5 For a portion he shows friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
控告他的朋友、以朋友為可搶奪的， 連他兒女的眼睛也要失明。
6 And He set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And I am a wonder before them.
上帝使我作了民中的笑談； 他們也吐唾沫在我臉上。
7 And my eye is dim from sorrow, And my members—all of them—as a shadow.
我的眼睛因憂愁昏花； 我的百體好像影兒。
8 The upright are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the profane.
正直人因此必驚奇； 無辜的人要興起攻擊不敬虔之輩。
9 And the righteous lays hold [on] his way, And the clean of hands adds strength.
然而，義人要持守所行的道； 手潔的人要力上加力。
10 But please return and come in, all of you, And I do not find a wise man among you.
至於你們眾人，可以再來辯論吧！ 你們中間，我找不着一個智慧人。
11 My days have passed by, My plans have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!
我的日子已經過了； 我的謀算、我心所想望的已經斷絕。
12 They appoint night for day, Light [is] near because of darkness.
他們以黑夜為白晝， 說：亮光近乎黑暗。
我若盼望陰間為我的房屋， 若下榻在黑暗中， (Sheol h7585)
14 To corruption I have called: You [are] my father. To the worm: My mother and my sister.
若對朽壞說：你是我的父； 對蟲說：你是我的母親姊妹；
15 And where [is] my hope now? Indeed, my hope, who beholds it?
這樣，我的指望在哪裏呢？ 我所指望的誰能看見呢？
