Genesis 44
1 Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's opening.
茲にヨセフその家宰に命じていふこの人々の嚢にその負うるほど糧食を充せ各人の金をその嚢の口に置れ
2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's opening of the youngest, and also his money for the grain.” The steward did as Joseph had said.
またわが杯すなはち銀の杯を彼の少き者の嚢の口に置てその穀物の金子とともにあらしめよと彼がヨセフがいひし言のごとくなせり
3 The morning dawned, and the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
かくて夜のあくるにおよびてその人々と驢馬をかへしけるが
4 When they were out of the city but were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Get up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you returned evil for good?
かれら城邑をいでてなほ程とほからぬにヨセフ家宰にいひけるは起てかの人々の後を追ひおひつきし時之にいふべし汝らなんぞ惡をもて善にむくゆるや
5 Is this not the cup from which my master drinks, and the cup that he uses for divination? You have done evil, this thing that you have done.'”
其はわが主がもちひて飮み又用ひて常に卜ふ者にあらずや汝らかくなすは惡しと
6 The steward overtook them and spoke these words to them.
是に於て家宰かれらにおひつきてこの言をかれらにいひければ
7 They said to him, “Why does my master speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they would do such a thing.
かれら之にいふ主なにゆゑに是事をいひたまふや僕等きはめてこの事をなさず
8 Look, the money that we found in our sacks' openings, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then could we steal out of your master's house silver or gold?
視よ我らの嚢の口にありし金はカナンの地より汝の所にもちかへれり然ば我等いかで汝の主の家より金銀をぬすまんや
9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my master's slaves.”
僕等の中誰の手に見あたるも其者は死べし我等またわが主の奴隸となるべし
10 The steward said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom the cup is found will be my slave, and you others will be innocent.”
彼いひけるはさらば汝らの言のごとくせん其の見あたりし者はわが奴隸となるべし汝等は咎なしと
11 Then each man hurried and brought his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
是において彼等急ぎて各その嚢を地におろし各その嚢をひらきしかば
12 The steward searched. He began with the oldest and finished with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
彼すなはち索し長者よりはじめて少者にをはるに杯はベニヤミンの嚢にありき
13 Then they tore their clothes. Each man loaded his donkey and returned to the city.
斯有しかば彼等その衣を裂きおのおのその驢馬に荷を負せて邑にかへる
14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house. He was still there, and they bowed before him to the ground.
しかしてユダとその兄弟等ヨセフの家にいたるにヨセフなほ其處にをりしかばその前に地に伏す
15 Joseph said to them, “What is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me practices divination?”
ヨセフかれらにいひけるは汝等がなしたるこの事は何ぞや我のごとき人は善く卜ひうる者なるをしらざるや
16 Judah said, “What can we say to my master? What can we speak? Or how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Look, we are my master's slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup was found.”
ユダいひけるは我等主に何をいはんや何をのべんや如何にしてわれらの正直をあらはさんや神僕等の罪を摘發したまへり然ば我等およびこの杯の見あたりし者倶に主の奴隸となるべし
17 Joseph said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup was found, that person will be my slave, but as for you others, go up in peace to your father.”
ヨセフいひけるはきはめて然せじ杯の手に見あたりし人はわが奴隸となるべし汝等は安然に父にかへりのぼるべし
18 Then Judah came near to him and said, “My master, please let your servant speak a word in my master's ears, and do let your anger burn against your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.
時にユダかれに近よりていひけるはわが主よ請ふ僕をして主の耳に一言いふをえせしめよ僕にむかひて怒を發したまふなかれ汝はパロのごとくにいますなり
19 My master asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'
昔にわが主僕等に問て汝等は父あるや弟あるやといひたまひしかば
20 We said to my master, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. But his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.'
我等主にいへり我等にわが父あり老人なり又その老年子なる少者ありその兄は死てその母の遺せるは只是のみ故に父これを愛すと
21 Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me that I may see him.'
汝また僕等にいひたまはく彼を我許につれくだり我をして之に目をつくることをえせしめよと
22 After that, we said to my master, 'The boy cannot leave his father. For if he should leave his father his father would die.'
われら主にいへり童子父を離るをえず若父をはなるるならば父死べしと
23 Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'
汝また僕等にいひたまはく汝らの季の弟汝等とともに下るにあらざれば汝等ふたたたびわが面を見るべからずと
24 Then it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my master.
我等すなはちなんぢの僕わが父の所にかへりのぼりて主の言をこれに告たり
25 Our father said, 'Go again, buy us some food.'
我らの父再びゆきて少許の糧食を買きたれといひければ
26 Then we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then will we go down, for we will not be able to see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
我らいふ我らくだりゆくことをえずわれらの季の弟われらと共にあらば下りゆくべし其は季の弟われらと共にあるにあらざれば彼人の面をみるをえざればなりと
27 Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.
なんぢの僕わが父われらにいふ汝らのしるごとく吾妻われに二人を生しが
28 One of them went out from me and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces, and I have not seen him since.”
その一人出てわれをはなれたれば必ず裂ころされしならんと思へり我今にいたるまで彼を見ず
29 Now if you also take this one from me, and harm comes to him, you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to Sheol.' (Sheol h7585)
なんぢら是をも我側より取ゆかんに若災害是の身におよぶあらば遂にわが白髮をして悲みて墓にくだらしむるにいたらんと (Sheol h7585)
30 Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boy's life,
抑父の生命と童子の生命とは相結びてあれば我なんぢの僕わが父に歸りいたらん時に童子もしわれらと共に在ずば如何ぞや
31 it will come about, when he sees the boy is not with us, he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
父童子の在ざるを見ば死るにいたらん然れば僕等なんぢの僕われらの父の白髮をして悲みて墓にくだらしむるなり (Sheol h7585)
32 For your servant became a guarantee for the boy to my father and said, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the guilt to my father forever.'
僕わが父に童子の事を保ひて我もし是を汝につれかへらずば永久に罪を父に負んといへり
33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy as slave to my master, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
されば請ふ僕をして童子にかはりをりて主の奴隸とならしめ童子をしてその兄弟とともに歸りのぼらしめたまへ
34 For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? I am afraid to see the evil that would come on my father.”
我いかでか童子を伴はずして父の許に上りゆくべけん恐くは災害の父におよぶを見ん
