Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu, responded and said: —

エリフまた答へて曰く

2 This, dost thou think to be right? Thou hast 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 thou dost say, How can one profit by thee? How can I benefit, more than by 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, will answer thee plainly, and thy friends 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 at the heavens and see, —and survey the skies—they 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 sinnest, what canst thou work against him? Or, if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do 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 art righteous, what canst thou give unto him? Or what, at thy hand, can he accept?

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 Unto a man like thyself, might thy lawlessness [reach], and, unto a son of the earth-born, thy 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 By reason of the multitude of oppressions, [men] make outcry, 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, beyond the bird of the heavens, giveth us wisdom?

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, [men] make outcry, and he answereth not, because of the arrogance of evil-doers.

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 Howbeit, vanity, will GOD not hear, Yea, the Almighty, will not regard 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 How much less when thou sayest thou wilt not regard him! The cause, is before him, and thou must wait 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 it is not so, [thou sayest] —His anger hath punished, and yet hath he not at all known of transgression;

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 Thus, Job, vainly openeth his mouth, Without knowledge, he multiplieth words.

ヨブ口を啓きて虚しき事を述べ無知の言語を繁くす