Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu answered and said,

エリフまた答へて曰く

2 Thinkest thou this to be [thy] right, [or] sayest thou, 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 That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? [and], What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

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 will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

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 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.

天を仰ぎて見よ 汝の上なる高き空を望め

6 If thou hast sinned, what doest thou against him? and if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto 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 thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine 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 Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou art; and thy righteousness [may profit] a son of man.

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 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; they cry for help by reason 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 But none saith, Where is God my Maker, who giveth 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 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

地の獸畜よりも善くわれらを教へ 空の鳥よりも我らを智からしめたまふ者なり

12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

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 will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

虚しき語を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 How much less when thou sayest thou beholdest him not, the cause is before him, and thou waitest 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 But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, neither doth he greatly regard arrogance;

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 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity; he multiplieth 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