Job 15
1 Then Eliphaz replied to Job:
そこでテマンびとエリパズは答えて言った、
2 “If you were truly wise [RHQ], you would not have replied to us by claiming that you know a lot; what you are saying is just a lot of hot air [MET].
「知者はむなしき知識をもって答えるであろうか。東風をもってその腹を満たすであろうか。
3 You should not [RHQ] be saying things that do not benefit anyone, using words that do no one any good.
役に立たない談話をもって論じるであろうか。無益な言葉をもって争うであろうか。
4 [By what you say, ] you show that you do not revere God, and you are hindering people from meditating/thinking about God.
ところがあなたは神を恐れることを捨て、神の前に祈る事をやめている。
5 [It is as though] your sins are telling you what to say; you talk like people who will not admit that they are wicked.
あなたの罪はあなたの口を教え、あなたは悪賢い人の舌を選び用いる。
6 Everything that you say [MTY] shows that you should be punished; so, it is not necessary for me to show that.
あなたの口みずからあなたの罪を定める、わたしではない。あなたのくちびるがあなたに逆らって証明する。
7 [“Tell me do you know more than everyone else because you think that] you are the first person who was ever born? [SAR, RHQ] Were you born before the hills [were created]?
あなたは最初に生れた人であるのか。山よりも先に生れたのか。
8 Were you listening when God made all his plans? [SAR, RHQ] Or do you think that you are the only person who is wise?
あなたは神の会議にあずかったのか。あなたは知恵を独占しているのか。
9 (What do you know that we do not know?/You do not know anything that we do not know.) [RHQ] You do not understand [RHQ] anything that is not also clear to us.
あなたが知るものはわれわれも知るではないか。あなたが悟るものはわれわれも悟るではないか。
10 My friends and I are also wise; we acquired [wisdom] from old gray-haired people, from people who were born before your father was born.
われわれの中にはしらがの人も、年老いた人もあって、あなたの父よりも年上だ。
11 God wants to comfort you, and to speak gently/kindly to you; (is that not enough for you/do you need more than that)?
神の慰めおよびあなたに対するやさしい言葉も、あなたにとって、あまりに小さいというのか。
12 Why do you allow yourself to be (carried away/excited) by your emotions? Why are [you very angry, with the result that] your eyes flash?
どうしてあなたの心は狂うのか。どうしてあなたの目はしばたたくのか。
13 You are angry [IDM] with God, and so you [MTY] are criticizing/denouncing him.
あなたが神にむかって気をいらだて、このような言葉をあなたの口から出すのはなぜか。
14 “(How can any person, [including you, ] be sinless?/No person, [including you], can be sinless.) [RHQ] (How can anyone on the earth be [completely] righteous?/No one on the earth can be [completely] righteous.) [RHQ]
人はいかなる者か、どうしてこれは清くありえよう。女から生れた者は、どうして正しくありえよう。
15 Hey, God does not even trust his angels; he does not consider even them to be [completely] pure.
見よ、神はその聖なる者にすら信を置かれない、もろもろの天も彼の目には清くない。
16 So, he certainly does not [trust] abominable/disgusting and depraved/corrupt people who do evil things [as easily] as they drink water [MET].
まして憎むべき汚れた者、また不義を水のように飲む人においては。
17 Job, listen to what I will tell you. I will declare to you what I know,
わたしはあなたに語ろう、聞くがよい。わたしは自分の見た事を述べよう。
18 things that wise men have told me, truths that their ancestors did not keep hidden.
これは知者たちがその先祖からうけて、隠す所なく語り伝えたものである。
19 God gave this land to those ancestors, who were truly wise; no one from another country caused them to think wrongly [IDM].
彼らにのみこの地は授けられて、他国人はその中に行き来したことがなかった。
20 It is wicked people who suffer with great pain all the time that they are alive; that is what happens to those who (oppress/act violently toward) others.
悪しき人は一生の間、もだえ苦しむ。残酷な人には年の数が定められている。
21 They constantly hear sounds that terrify them; while they are prospering, bandits attack them.
その耳には恐ろしい音が聞え、繁栄の時にも滅ぼす者が彼に臨む。
22 Wicked people surely know that they will not escape from darkness/death, because [they are sure that someone] is waiting to kill them with a sword.
彼は、暗やみから帰りうるとは信ぜず、つるぎにねらわれる。
23 They wander around, searching for food, saying ‘Where can I find some?’ And they know that they will soon experience disasters.
彼は食物はどこにあるかと言いつつさまよい、暗き日が手近に備えられてあるのを知る。
24 Because they are afraid of those things happening to them, they are afraid and worry that these things will come to them like [the army of] a king comes to attack [their enemies and cause them to suffer] [SIM].
悩みと苦しみとが彼を恐れさせ、戦いの備えをした王のように彼に打ち勝つ。
25 [Those things happen to them] because they (shook their fists/dared to fight) against Almighty God, and thought that they were strong enough to defeat him.
これは彼が神に逆らってその手を伸べ、全能者に逆らって高慢にふるまい、
26 They stubbornly [IDM] rush to attack God [as though they were carrying] a strong shield [to protect themselves].
盾の厚い面をもって強情に、彼にはせ向かうからだ。
27 They are so fat [that they are unable to fight].
また彼は脂肪をもってその顔をおおい、その腰には脂肪の肉を集め、
28 They will live in cities that have been abandoned, cities which have become a heap of ruins.
滅ぼされた町々に住み、人の住まない家、荒塚となる所におるからだ。
29 But they will not remain rich very long; Everything that they own will be taken from them; their possessions will all disappear.
彼は富める者とならず、その富はながく続かない、また地に根を張ることはない。
30 They will not escape from the darkness [of death]; they will be like trees whose branches are burned by fire and whose blossoms are blown away by the wind.
彼は暗やみからのがれることができない。炎はその若枝を枯らし、その花は風に吹き去られる。
31 Since they are very foolish, with the result that they trust in things that are really worthless, then things that are worthless will be all that they get.
彼をしてみずから欺いて、むなしい事にたよらせてはならない。その報いはむなしいからだ。
32 Before they are old, they will wither; they will be like [MET] branches that wither and never become green again.
彼の時のこない前にその事がなし遂げられ、彼の枝は緑とならないであろう。
33 They will be like [SIM] vines whose grapes fall off before they are ripe, like olive trees whose blossoms fall off before they produce any fruit.
彼はぶどうの木のように、その熟さない実をふり落すであろう。またオリブの木のように、その花を落すであろう。
34 Wicked/godless people will not have any descendants, and fires will completely burn up the homes of [those who built those homes using] money they received from bribes.
神を信じない者のやからは子なく、まいないによる天幕は火で焼き滅ぼされるからだ。
35 They plan to cause trouble and to do evil things, and they are always preparing to deceive people.”
彼らは害悪をはらみ、不義を生み、その腹は偽りをつくる」。
