Job 12
1 Then Job answered and said,
ヨブこたへて言ふ
2 “No doubt you are the people; wisdom will die with you.
なんぢら而已まことに人なり 智慧は汝らと共に死ん
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Indeed, who does not know such things as these?
我もなんぢらと同じく心あり 我はなんぢらの下に立ず 誰か汝らの言し如き事を知ざらんや
4 I am something for my neighbor to laugh at— I, one who called on God and who was answered by him! I, a just and blameless man—I am now something to laugh at.
我は神に龥はりて聽るる者なるに今その友に嘲らるる者となれり 嗚呼正しくかつ完たき人あざけらる
5 In the thought of someone who is at ease, there is contempt for misfortune; he thinks in a way that brings more misfortune to those whose foot is slipping.
安逸なる者は思ふ 輕侮は不幸なる者に附そひ足のよろめく者を俟と
6 The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God feel secure; their own hands are their gods.
掠奪ふ者の天幕は繁榮え 神を怒らせ自己の手に神を携ふる者は安泰なり
7 But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; ask the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you.
今請ふ獸に問へ然ば汝に教へん 天空の鳥に問へ然ばなんぢに語らん
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; the fish of the sea will declare to you.
地に言へ然ばなんぢに教へん 海の魚もまた汝に述べし
9 Which animal among all these does not know that the hand of Yahweh has done this?
誰かこの一切の者に依てヱホバの手のこれを作りしなるを知ざらんや
10 In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
一切の生物の生氣および一切の人の靈魂ともに彼の手の中にあり
11 Does not the ear test words just as the palate tastes its food?
耳は説話を辨へざらんや その状あたかも口の食物を味ふがごとし
12 With aged men is wisdom; in length of days is understanding.
老たる者の中には智慧あり 壽長者の中には穎悟あり
13 With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
智慧と權能は神に在り 智謀と穎悟も彼に屬す
14 See, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again; if he imprisons someone, there can be no release.
視よ彼毀てば再び建ること能はず 彼人を閉こむれば開き出すことを得ず
15 See, if he withholds the waters, they dry up; and if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
視よ彼水を止むれば則ち涸れ 水を出せば則ち地を滅ぼす
16 With him are strength and wisdom; people who are deceived and the deceiver are both in his power.
權能と穎悟は彼に在り 惑はさるる者も惑はす者も共に彼に屬す
17 He leads counselors away barefoot in sorrow; he turns judges into fools.
彼は議士を裸體にして擄へゆき 審判人をして愚なる者とならしめ
18 He takes off the chain of authority from kings; he wraps a cloth about their waists.
王等の權威を解て反て之が腰に繩をかけ
19 He leads priests away barefoot in sorrow and overthrows mighty people.
祭司等を裸體にして擄へゆき 權力ある者を滅ぼし
20 He removes the speech of those who had been trusted and takes away the understanding of the elders.
言爽なる者の言語を取除き 老たる者の了知を奪ひ
21 He pours contempt upon princes and unfastens the belt of strong people.
侯伯たる者等に恥辱を蒙らせ 強き者の帶を解き
22 He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.
暗中より隱れたる事等を顯し 死の蔭を光明に出し
23 He makes nations strong, and he also destroys them; He enlarges nations, and he also leads them along as prisoners.
國々を大にしまた之を滅ぼし 國々を廣くしまた之を舊に歸し
24 He takes away understanding from the leaders of the people of the earth; he causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no path.
地の民の長たる者等の了知を奪ひ これを路なき荒野に吟行はしむ
25 They grope in the dark without light; he makes them stagger like a drunk man.
彼らは光明なき暗にたどる 彼また彼らを醉る人のごとくによろめかしむ
