Job 22
1 Then Eliphaz replied,
そこでテマンびとエリパズは答えて言った、
2 “(Can anyone be useful to God?/Certainly no one can be useful to God.) [RHQ] Even people who are wise cannot be helpful to God.
「人は神を益することができるであろうか。賢い人も、ただ自身を益するのみである。
3 If you were righteous, (would that benefit Almighty [God]?/that certainly would not benefit Almighty [God].) [RHQ] If you had (lived a perfect life/never done anything that is wrong), would that help him?
あなたが正しくても、全能者になんの喜びがあろう。あなたが自分の道を全うしても、彼になんの利益があろう。
4 “Is it because you have an awesome respect for God that he punishes you? Is that the reason that he puts you on trial?
神はあなたが神を恐れることのゆえに、あなたを責め、あなたをさばかれるであろうか。
5 No, it certainly must be [RHQ] because you are extremely wicked. It must be that the evil things that you have done are so many that no one can count them!
あなたの悪は大きいではないか。あなたの罪は、はてしがない。
6 You must have lent money to others and wrongly forced them to give you things to guarantee that they would pay that money back to you; you must have taken all their clothes and left them with nothing to wear.
あなたはゆえなく兄弟のものを質にとり、裸な者の着物をはぎ取り、
7 You must not have given water to those who were thirsty, and you must have refused to give food to those who were hungry.
疲れた者に水を飲ませず、飢えた者に食物を与えなかった。
8 Because you were very powerful, you [must have] taken over all the people’s land, and then, being very respected, you have begun to live on that land.
力ある人は土地を得、名ある人はそのうちに住んだ。
9 [When] widows [came to you for help], you [must have] sent [them] away without giving them anything, and you must have oppressed orphans.
あなたは、やもめをむなしく去らせた。みなしごの腕は折られた。
10 Because of all that, now there are pits around you for you to fall into, and suddenly there are things that terrify you and cause you to tremble.
それゆえ、わなはあなたをめぐり、恐怖は、にわかにあなたを驚かす。
11 [It is as though] it has become very dark, with the result that you cannot see anything, and [it is as though] [MET] a flood covers you.
あなたの光は暗くされ、あなたは見ることができない。大水はあなたをおおうであろう。
12 “[But consider this, Job]: God lives [RHQ] high up in the heavens. From there he [RHQ] looks down on the highest stars.
神は天に高くおられるではないか。見よ、いと高き星を。いかに高いことよ。
13 So why do you say, ‘What does God know [about what we are doing]? [He is hidden from us by] dark clouds, so ([how] can he judge us?/he certainly cannot judge us.) [RHQ]’
それであなたは言う、『神は何を知っておられるか。彼は黒雲を通して、さばくことができるのか。
14 [Do you think that] while he walks on the dome that covers the sky, there are thick clouds around him, with the result that he cannot see [what we do]?
濃い雲が彼をおおい隠すと、彼は見ることができない。彼は天の大空を歩まれるのだ』と。
15 Will you continue to conduct your life the old way that evil people have done [for many years]?
あなたは悪しき人々が踏んだいにしえの道を守ろうとするのか。
16 They suddenly died while they were still young; they disappeared [like everything disappears when there is] a flood [MET].
彼らは時がこないうちに取り去られ、その基は川のように押し流された。
17 They kept saying to God, ‘Do not bother us,’ and they also said [defiantly], ‘Almighty [God] can do nothing [RHQ] to [harm] us!’
彼らは神に言った、『われわれを離れてください』と、また『全能者はわれわれに何をなしえようか』と。
18 But it was God who filled their houses with good things, so I cannot at all understand why wicked people think like they do.
しかし神は彼らの家を良い物で満たされた。ただし悪人の計りごとはわたしのくみする所ではない。
19 “But when God punishes wicked people, and righteous people see that, they are glad, and they laugh, ridiculing the wicked people.
正しい者はこれを見て喜び、罪なき者は彼らをあざ笑って言う、
20 They say, ‘Now our enemies have been destroyed, and all [their possessions] that were left have been burned in a fire.’
『まことにわれわれのあだは滅ぼされ、その残した物は火で焼き滅ぼされた』と。
21 “So, [Job, ] be reconciled to God and make peace with him; if you do that, good things will happen to you.
あなたは神と和らいで、平安を得るがよい。そうすれば幸福があなたに来るでしょう。
22 Allow him to teach you, and keep thinking about what he has told you.
どうか、彼の口から教を受け、その言葉をあなたの心におさめるように。
23 If you humble yourself and return to God, if you stop doing all the evil things that you have been doing in your house,
あなたがもし全能者に立ち返って、おのれを低くし、あなたの天幕から不義を除き去り、
24 if you throw away your gold, even the fine gold from the dry stream beds in Ophir [land],
こがねをちりの中に置き、オフルのこがねを谷川の石の中に置き、
25 and if you allow Almighty [God] to be [as precious to you as] your gold and your silver [have been],
全能者があなたのこがねとなり、あなたの貴重なしろがねとなるならば、
26 you will be happy because of your close relationship with God, and you will be able to approach him [IDM] [confidently].
その時、あなたは全能者を喜び、神に向かって顔をあげることができる。
27 You will pray to him, and he will do what you request him to do; you will do the things that you promised him that you would do.
あなたが彼に祈るならば、彼はあなたに聞かれる。そしてあなたは自分の誓いを果す。
28 Everything that you decide to do will be successful; [it] will [be as though] a light [is] shining on the road in front of you.
あなたが事をなそうと定めるならば、あなたはその事を成就し、あなたの道には光が輝く。
29 God humbles those who are proud, but he saves those who are downcast/discouraged.
彼は高ぶる者を低くされるが、へりくだる者を救われるからだ。
30 God rescues those who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), so he will rescue you if you (start doing things that are right/are not guilty [IDM] of doing things that are wrong).”
彼は罪のない者を救われる。あなたはその手の潔いことによって、救われるであろう」。
