Job 17
1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
我的氣息已斷，壽命已盡，而且墳墓已為我做好。
2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
我豈不是成了笑罵的對象﹖我的眼睛豈不是在酸苦中過夜﹖
3 "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
求你將我的抵押放在你那裏! 誰還敢與我擊掌作保﹖
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
因為你蒙蔽了他們的心，不叫他們明白，他們纔不敢舉起手來。
5 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
人請自己的朋友分享所有，但自己的子女卻餓的眼目昏花。
6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
我成了人民取笑的資料，人人在我臉上可吐唾沫。
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
我的眼睛因愁悶而昏花，我的肢體消失有如蔭影。
8 Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
正直人因此而驚異，無罪者憤起攻擊惡人。
9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
義人堅持自己的道，手淨的人倍增勇氣。
10 But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
你們眾人，請你們再回來，但在你們中我找不到一個智者。
11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
我的時日已過去，我志所謀，我心所愛，都已落空。
12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
他們將黑夜變為白天，使光明靠近黑暗；
若是我還有希望，即以陰府為我的家；在憂暗之處，舖設我的床榻。 (Sheol h7585)
14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
我對墓穴說：你作我父! 對蛆蟲說：你作我母，我妹!
15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?
我的希望究在何處﹖我的幸福，有誰注意﹖
