Job 23
1 Then Job answered and said,
ヨブこたへて曰く
2 “Even today my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy because of my groaning.
我は今日にても尚つぶやきて服せず わが禍災はわが嘆息よりも重し
3 Oh, that I knew where I might find him! Oh, that I might come to his place!
ねがはくは神をたづねて何處にか遇まつるを知り其御座に參いたらんことを
4 I would lay my case in order before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
我この愁訴をその御前に陳べ口を極めて辨論はん
5 I would learn the words with which he would answer me and would understand what he would say to me.
我その我に答へたまふ言を知り また其われに言たまふ所を了らん
6 Would he argue against me in the greatness of his power? No, he would pay attention to me.
かれ大なる能をもて我と爭ひたまはんや 然らじ反つて我を眷みたまふべし
7 There the upright person might argue with him. In this way I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
彼處にては正義人かれと辨爭ふことを得 斯せば我を鞫く者の手を永く免かるべし
8 See, I go eastward, but he is not there, and westward, but I cannot perceive him.
しかるに我東に往くも彼いまさず 西に往くも亦見たてまつらず
9 To the north, where he is at work, but I cannot see him, and to the south, where he hides himself so that I cannot see him.
北に工作きたまへども遇まつらず 南に隱れ居たまへば望むべからず
10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come out like gold.
わが平生の道は彼知たまふ 彼われを試みたまはば我は金のごとくして出きたらん
11 My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept to his way and turned not aside.
わが足は彼の歩履に堅く隨がへり 我はかれの道を守りて離れざりき
12 I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
我はかれの唇の命令に違はず 我が法よりも彼の口の言語を重ぜり
13 But he is one of a kind, who can turn him back? What he desires, he does.
かれは一に居る者にまします 誰か能かれをして意を變しめん 彼はその心に慾する所をかならず爲たまふ
14 For he carries out his decree against me; there are many like them.
然ば我に向ひて定めし事を必らず成就たまはん 是のごとき事を多く彼は爲たまふなり
15 Therefore, I am terrified in his presence; when I think about him, I am afraid of him.
是故に我かれの前に慄ふ 我考ふれば彼を懼る
16 For God has made my heart weak; the Almighty has terrified me.
神わが心を弱くならしめ 全能者われをして懼れしめたまふ
17 I have not been brought to an end by darkness, because of the thick darkness that covers the gloom of my face.
かく我は暗の來らぬ先わが面を黑暗の覆ふ前に打絶れざりき
