Job 35

1 And Elihu answers and says:

エリフまた答へて曰く

2 “Have you reckoned this for judgment [when] you have 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 you say, What does it profit You? What do I profit from my sin?

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 return words, and your friends with you,

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 Behold attentively the heavens—and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than you.

天を仰ぎて見よ 汝の上なる高き空を望め

6 If you have sinned, what do you do against Him? And your transgressions have been multiplied, What do you do to 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 you have been righteous, What do you give to Him? Or what does He receive from your 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 For a man like yourself [is] your wickedness, And for a son of man your 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 Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry 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 And none said, Where [is] God my Maker? Giving songs 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 Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Indeed, He makes us wiser than the bird 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 they cry, and He does not answer, Because of the pride of evildoers.

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 Surely God does not hear vanity, And the Mighty does not behold 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 Indeed, though you say you do not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stays 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 And now, because there is not, He has appointed His anger, And He has not known in great extremity.

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 And Job opens his mouth [with] vanity, He multiplies words without knowledge.”

ヨブ口を啓きて虚しき事を述べ無知の言語を繁くす