Job 9
1 Then Job replied,
约伯回答说：
2 “Yes, I certainly know that [much of] what you said is true. But (how can anyone say to God, ‘I (am innocent/have not done what is wrong) and prove it?’/no one can say to God ‘I (am innocent/have not done what is wrong) and prove it.’) [RHQ]
我真知道是这样； 但人在 神面前怎能成为义呢？
3 If someone wanted to argue with God [about that], God could ask him 1,000 questions, and that person would not be able to answer any of them!
若愿意与他争辩， 千中之一也不能回答。
4 God is very wise [IDM] and very powerful; no one who has tried to challenge God has been able to win.
他心里有智慧，且大有能力。 谁向 神刚硬而得亨通呢？
5 He even moves mountains, without them (OR, anyone) knowing about it. When he is angry, he turns them upside down.
他发怒，把山翻倒挪移， 山并不知觉。
6 He sends earthquakes that shake the ground; he causes the pillars that support the earth to tremble.
他使地震动，离其本位， 地的柱子就摇撼。
7 [Some days] he speaks to the sun, and it does not rise, and [some nights] he prevents the stars from shining.
他吩咐日头不出来，就不出来， 又封闭众星。
8 He alone (stretched out/put in place) the sky; he alone puts his feet on the waves (OR, on the huge sea monster).
他独自铺张苍天， 步行在海浪之上。
9 He put in their places [the clusters/groups of stars that are called] The Dipper/Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars in the southern sky.
他造北斗、参星、昴星， 并南方的密宫；
10 Only he does great things that we cannot understand; he does more marvelous things than we are able to count.
他行大事，不可测度， 行奇事，不可胜数。
11 He passes by where I am, but I do not see him; he moves further on, but I do not see him go.
他从我旁边经过，我却不看见； 他在我面前行走，我倒不知觉。
12 If he [wants to] snatch something away, no one [RHQ] can hinder him; no one dares to ask him, ‘Why are you doing that?’ [RHQ]
他夺取，谁能阻挡？ 谁敢问他：你做什么？
13 God will not very easily stop being angry; he defeated [MTY] those who [tried to] help Rahab, [the great sea monster].
神必不收回他的怒气； 扶助拉哈伯的，屈身在他以下。
14 “So, [if God took me to court], what could I say [MTY] to answer him?
既是这样，我怎敢回答他， 怎敢选择言语与他辩论呢？
15 Even though I (would be innocent/would not have done what is wrong), I would not be able to answer him. All I could do would be to request God, my judge/accuser, to act mercifully toward me.
我虽有义，也不回答他， 只要向那审判我的恳求。
16 If I summoned him to [come to the courtroom] and he said that he would come, I would not believe that he would pay attention to what I would say.
我若呼吁，他应允我； 我仍不信他真听我的声音。
17 He sends storms to batter me, and he bruises me many times (without any reason to do that/even though I am innocent).
他用暴风折断我， 无故地加增我的损伤。
18 [It is as though] he will not let me get/catch my breath, because he causes me to suffer all the time.
我就是喘一口气，他都不容， 倒使我满心苦恼。
19 If I would try to (wrestle with/fight against) him, [there is no way that I could defeat him, ] [because] he is stronger than I am. If I would request him to appear in court, there is no one who could [RHQ] force him to go there.
若论力量，他真有能力！ 若论审判，他说谁能将我传来呢？
20 Even though I was innocent, what I would say would cause him to say that I must be punished [MTY]; even though I had not done anything wrong, he would prove that I am guilty.
我虽有义，自己的口要定我为有罪； 我虽完全，我口必显我为弯曲。
21 “I have not done what is wrong, but that is not important. I despise continuing to remain alive.
我本完全，不顾自己； 我厌恶我的性命。
22 But it doesn’t matter, because God will get rid of [all of us, ] both those who are innocent and those who are wicked.
善恶无分，都是一样； 所以我说，完全人和恶人，他都灭绝。
23 When people experience disaster and it causes them to suddenly die, God laughs at it, even if they are innocent.
若忽然遭杀害之祸， 他必戏笑无辜的人遇难。
24 God has allowed wicked people to control [what happens in] the world. [It is as though] he has caused judges to be blindfolded, [with the result that they cannot judge fairly]. If it is not God who has put wicked people in control, who has done it?
世界交在恶人手中； 蒙蔽世界审判官的脸， 若不是他，是谁呢？
25 “My days go by very quickly, like a fast runner; [it is as though] they run away, and nothing good happens to me on those days.
我的日子比跑信的更快， 急速过去，不见福乐。
26 My life goes by very rapidly, like a boat made from reeds sailing swiftly, or like an eagle that swoops down to seize a small animal.
我的日子过去如快船， 如急落抓食的鹰。
27 If I smile and say [to God], ‘I will forget what I am complaining about; I will stop looking sad and try to be cheerful/happy,’
我若说：我要忘记我的哀情， 除去我的愁容，心中畅快；
28 then I become afraid because of all that I am suffering, because I know that God does not consider that I am innocent.
我因愁苦而惧怕， 知道你必不以我为无辜。
29 He will (condemn me/declare that I should be punished), so why should I keep trying in vain [to defend myself]?
我必被你定为有罪， 我何必徒然劳苦呢？
30 If I washed myself with snow or cleansed my hands with lye/soap [to get rid of my guilt],
我若用雪水洗身， 用硷洁净我的手，
31 he would still throw me into a filthy pit; as a result [it would be as though] even my clothes would detest me.
你还要扔我在坑里， 我的衣服都憎恶我。
32 “God is not a human, as I am, so there is no way that I could answer him [to prove that I am innocent] if we went together to have a trial [in a courtroom].
他本不像我是人，使我可以回答他， 又使我们可以同听审判。
33 There is no one to (mediate/hear us and decide who is right), no one who has authority over both of us [IDM].
我们中间没有听讼的人 可以向我们两造按手。
34 I wish/desire that he would stop punishing [MTY] me, and that he would not continue to terrify me.
愿他把杖离开我， 不使惊惶威吓我。
35 If he did that, I would declare [that I am innocent] without being afraid of him, because I know that I really have not [done what is wrong like God thinks that I have].”
我就说话，也不惧怕他， 现在我却不是那样。
