Job 31
1 A covenant, I solemnised for mine eyes, —How then could I gaze upon a virgin?
我同我的眼立了約，決不注視處女。
2 Or what would have been my portion of GOD from above? Or what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
天主由上所注定的一分是什麼﹖全能者由高處所給的產業是什麼﹖
3 Is there not calamity, for the perverse? and misfortune, for the workers of iniquity?
豈不是為惡人注定了喪亡，為作孽的人注定了災殃﹖
4 Would, he, not see my ways? and of all my steps, take account?
他豈不監視我的行徑，計算我的腳步﹖
5 Verily I walked not in falsity, nor did my foot haste unto deceit: —
我若與虛偽同行，我的腳若趨向詭詐，
6 Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness, —and let GOD take note of mine integrity!
願天主以公正的天平秤量我，他必知道我的純正。
7 If my goings have swerved from the way, —and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,
我的腳步如果離開了正道，我的心如果隨從了眼目之所見，我的手若持有不潔，
8 Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted!
那麼，我種的，情願讓別人來吃；我栽的，情願讓別人拔出。
9 If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait,
我的心如果為婦女所迷，我如果曾在鄰人門口等候婦女，
10 Let my wife, grind to another, and, over her, let others bend!
就讓我的妻子給人推磨，讓別人與她同寢。
11 Surely that had been a shameful thing! and that an iniquity for the judges!
因為這是淫行，是應受嚴刑的罪惡；
12 Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.
是一種焚燒至毀滅的火，燒盡我全部產業的火。
13 If I refused the right of my servant, or my handmaid, when they contended with me,
當我的僕婢與我爭執時，我若輕視他們的權利，
14 What then could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered him?
天主起來時，我可怎麼辦呢﹖他若追問，我可怎樣回答﹖
15 Did not he who, in the womb, made me, make him? And is not he who formed us in the body one?
在母胎造成我的，不是也造了他們﹖在母胎形成我們的，不是只有他一個﹖
16 If I withheld—from pleasure—the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed;
我何時曾拒絕了窮苦人的渴望，我何時曾使寡婦的眼目頹喪﹖
17 Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof;
我何時獨自吃食物，而沒有與孤兒共享﹖
18 Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her:
因為天主自我幼年，就像父親教養了我；自我出了母胎，就引導了我。
19 If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
如果我見了無衣蔽體的乞丐，無遮蓋的窮人，
20 If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself;
如果他的心沒有向我道謝，沒有以我的羊毛獲得溫暖，
21 If I shook—against the fatherless—my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help,
如果我在城門口見有支持我者，就舉手攻擊無罪者，
22 Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder-blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken;
那麼，讓我的肩由胛骨脫落，我的胳膊由肘處折斷!
23 For, a dread unto me, was calamity from GOD, and, from his majesty, I could not escape.
因為天主的懲罰使我驚駭，因他的威嚴，我站立不住。
24 If I made gold my stay, and, to precious metal, said, My confidence!
我何嘗以黃金為依靠，對純金說過：「你是我的靠山﹖」
25 If I rejoiced because great was my substance, and, an abundance, my hand had discovered;
我何嘗因財產豐富，手賺的多而喜樂過﹖
26 If I looked at the sun, when it flashed forth light, or at the moon, majestically marching along;
我何時見太陽照耀，月亮皎潔徐行，
27 And befooled secretly was my heart, so that my hand kissed my mouth,
我的心遂暗中受到迷惑，我的口遂親手送吻﹖
28 That too, had been a judicial iniquity, For I should have been false to GOD, above.
這也是應受嚴罰的罪過，因為我背棄了至高的天主。
29 If rejoiced in the misfortune of him that hated me, or exulted when calamity found him; —
我何時慶幸恨我者遭殃，見他遭遇不幸而得意﹖
30 Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life:
其實，我沒有容我的口犯罪，詛咒過他的性命。
31 If the men of my household have not said, Oh for some of his flesh—we cannot get filled,
我帳幕內的人是否有人說過：「某人沒有吃飽主人給的肉﹖」
32 Outside, the sojourner lodged not for the night, My doors—to the wayfarer, I threw open.
外方人沒有睡在露天地裏，我的門常為旅客敞開。
33 If I covered, like Adam, my transgressions, by hiding in my bosom mine iniquity,
我豈像凡人一樣，掩飾過我的過犯，把邪惡隱藏在胸中﹖
34 Then let me be made to tremble at a great throng, yea let, the contempt of families, terrify me, so that, keeping silence, I shall not go out of the door!
我豈怕群眾的吵鬧﹖親族的謾罵豈能嚇住我，使我不敢作聲，杜門不出﹖
35 Oh that I had one to hear me, Lo! my crossmark, May, the Almighty, answer me! And would that, a book, mine opponent had written!
惟願天主俯聽我，這是我最後的要求：願全能者答覆我! 我的對方所寫的狀詞，
36 Oh! would I not, upon my shoulder, lift it, or bind it as a crown upon me;
我要把它背在我肩上，編成我的冠冕。
37 The number of my footsteps, I would declare to him, Like a noble, would I draw near to him.
我將像王侯一樣走向他面前，向他一一陳述我的行為。－－約伯的話至此為止。
38 If, against me, my ground used to cry out, and, together, my ridges did weep;
我的田地若控告我，犁溝若一同哀訴，
39 If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;
我若吃田中的產物而不付代價，或叫地主心靈悲傷，
40 Instead of wheat, let there come forth bramble, and, instead of barley, a bad-smelling weed! Ended are the words of Job.
願此地不再長小麥而長荊棘，不長大麥而長惡草。
