Job 6
1 And Job answers and says:
約伯回答說：
2 “O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
惟願我的煩惱稱一稱， 我一切的災害放在天平裏；
3 For now it is heavier than the sands of the sea, Therefore my words have been rash.
現今都比海沙更重， 所以我的言語急躁。
4 For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me!
因全能者的箭射入我身； 其毒，我的靈喝盡了； 上帝的驚嚇擺陣攻擊我。
5 Does a wild donkey bray over tender grass? Does an ox low over his provender?
野驢有草豈能叫喚？ 牛有料豈能吼叫？
6 Is an insipid thing eaten without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
物淡而無鹽豈可吃嗎？ 蛋青有甚麼滋味呢？
7 My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.
看為可厭的食物， 我心不肯挨近。
8 O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
惟願我得着所求的， 願上帝賜我所切望的；
9 That God would please—and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
就是願上帝把我壓碎， 伸手將我剪除。
10 And yet it is my comfort (And I exult in pain—He does not spare), That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.
我因沒有違棄那聖者的言語， 就仍以此為安慰， 在不止息的痛苦中還可踴躍。
11 What [is] my power that I should hope? And what [is] my end that I should prolong my life?
我有甚麼氣力使我等候？ 我有甚麼結局使我忍耐？
12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh bronze?
我的氣力豈是石頭的氣力？ 我的肉身豈是銅的呢？
13 Is my help not with me, And substance driven from me?
在我豈不是毫無幫助嗎？ 智慧豈不是從我心中趕出淨盡嗎？
14 To a despiser of his friends [is] shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsakes.
那將要灰心、離棄全能者、 不敬畏上帝的人， 他的朋友當以慈愛待他。
15 My brothers have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.
我的弟兄詭詐，好像溪水， 又像溪水流乾的河道。
16 That are black because of ice, By them snow hides itself.
這河因結冰發黑， 有雪藏在其中；
17 By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.
天氣漸暖就隨時消化， 日頭炎熱便從原處乾涸。
18 The paths turn aside of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
結伴的客旅離棄大道， 順河偏行，到荒野之地死亡。
19 Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travelers of Sheba hoped for them.
提瑪結伴的客旅瞻望； 示巴同夥的人等候。
20 They were ashamed that one has trusted, They have come to it and are confounded.
他們因失了盼望就抱愧， 來到那裏便蒙羞。
21 Surely now you have become the same! You see a downfall, and are afraid.
現在你們正是這樣， 看見驚嚇的事便懼怕。
22 Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?
我豈說：請你們供給我， 從你們的財物中送禮物給我？
23 And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, Ransom me from the hand of terrible ones?
豈說：拯救我脫離敵人的手嗎？ 救贖我脫離強暴人的手嗎？
24 Show me, and I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.
請你們教導我，我便不作聲； 使我明白在何事上有錯。
25 How powerful have been upright sayings, And what reproof from you reproves?
正直的言語力量何其大！ 但你們責備是責備甚麼呢？
26 For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate?
絕望人的講論既然如風， 你們還想要駁正言語嗎？
27 You cause anger to fall on the fatherless, And are strange to your friend.
你們想為孤兒拈鬮， 以朋友當貨物。
28 And now, please, look on me, Even to your face do I lie?
現在請你們看看我， 我決不當面說謊。
29 Please turn back, let it not be perverseness, Indeed, turn back again—my righteousness [is] in it.
請你們轉意，不要不公； 請再轉意，我的事有理。
30 Is there perverseness in my tongue? Does my palate not discern calamity?”
我的舌上豈有不義嗎？ 我的口裏豈不辨奸惡嗎？
