Job 23

1 And Job answers and says:

ヨブこたへて曰く

2 “Also—today my complaint [is] bitter, My hand has been heavy because of my sighing.

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 O that I had known—and I find Him, I come to His seat,

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 I arrange the cause before Him, And 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 I know the words He answers me, And understand what He says to 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 Does He strive with me in the abundance of power? No! Surely He puts [it] in 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 There the upright reason with Him, And I escape from mine who is judging—forever.

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 Behold, I go forward—and He is not, And backward—and I do not perceive Him.

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 [To] the left in His working—and I do not see, He is covered [on] the right, and I do not behold.

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 has known the way with me, He has tried me—I go forth 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 My foot has laid hold on His step, I have kept His way, and do not turn aside,

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 The command of His lips, and I do not depart. I have laid up above my allotted portion The sayings of His mouth.

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 He [is] in one [mind], And who turns Him back? And His soul has desired—and He does [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

14 For He completes my portion, And many such things [are] with Him.

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, I am troubled at His presence, I consider, and am afraid of Him.

是故に我かれの前に慄ふ 我考ふれば彼を懼る

16 And God has made my heart soft, And the Mighty 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 have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.”

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