Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu continued, saying,

エリフまた答へて曰く

2 “Do you think this is just when you say, 'My right before God'?

なんぢは言ふ 我が義しきは神に愈れりと なんぢ之を正しとおもふや

3 For you ask, 'What use is it to me?' and, 'Would I be better off if I had sinned?'

すなはち汝いへらく 是は我に何の益あらんや 罪を犯すに較ぶれば何の愈るところか有んと

4 I will answer you, both you and your friends.

われ言詞をもて汝およびなんぢにそへる汝の友等に答へん

5 Look up at the sky, and see it; see the sky, which is higher than you.

天を仰ぎて見よ 汝の上なる高き空を望め

6 If you have sinned, what harm do you do to God? If your transgressions pile up high, what do you do to him?

なんぢ罪を犯すとも神に何の害か有ん 愆を熾んにするとも神に何を爲えんや

7 If you are righteous, what can you give to him? What will he receive from your hand?

汝正義かるとも神に何を與るを得んや 神なんぢの手より何をか受たまはん

8 Your wickedness may hurt a man, as you are a man, and your righteousness might benefit another son of man.

なんぢの惡は只なんぢに同じき人を損ぜん而已 なんぢの善は只人の子を益せんのみ

9 Because of many acts of oppression, people cry out; they call for help from the arms of mighty men.

暴虐の甚だしきに因て叫び 權勢ある者の腕に壓れて呼はる人々あり

10 But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

然れども一人として我を造れる神は何處にいますやといふ者なし 彼は人をして夜の中に歌を歌ふに至らしめ

11 who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth, and who makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

地の獸畜よりも善くわれらを敎へ 空の鳥よりも我らを智からしめたまふ者なり

12 There they cry out, but God gives no answer because of the pride of evil men.

惡き者等の驕傲ぶるに因て斯のごとく人々叫べども應ふる者あらず

13 God will certainly not hear a foolish cry; the Almighty will pay no attention to it.

虚しき語は神かならず之を聽たまはず 全能者これを顧みたまはじ

14 How much less will he answer you if you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him, and that you are waiting for him!

汝は我かれを見たてまつらずと言といへども審判は神の前にあり この故に汝彼を待べきなり

15 Now you say that his anger does not punish, and he does not take even a litte notice of transgression.

今かれ震怒をもて罰することを爲ず 罪愆を深く心に留たまはざる(が如くなる)に因て

16 So Job opens his mouth only to speak foolishness; he piles up words without knowledge.”

ヨブ口を啓きて虚しき事を述べ無知の言語を繁くす