Job 17
1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
わが氣息は已にくさり 我日すでに盡なんとし墳墓われを待つ
2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
まことに嘲弄者等わが傍に在り 我目は彼らの辨爭ふを常に見ざるを得ず
3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
願くは質を賜ふて汝みづから我の保證となりたまへ 誰か他にわが手をうつ者あらんや
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
汝彼らの心を閉て悟るところ無らしめたまへり 必ず彼らをして愈らしめたまはじ
5 He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
朋友を交付して掠奪に遭しむる者は其子等の目潰るべし
6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
彼われを世の民の笑柄とならしめたまふ 我は面に唾せらるべき者となれり
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
かつまた我目は憂愁によりて昏み 肢體は凡て影のごとし
8 Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
義しき者は之に驚き 無辜者は邪曲なる者を見て憤ほる
9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
然ながら義しき者はその道を堅く持ち 手に潔淨き者はますます力を得るなり
10 But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
請ふ汝ら皆ふたたび來れ 我は汝らの中に一人も智き者あるを見ざるなり
11 My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
わが日は已に過ぎ わが計る所わが心に冀ふ所は已に敗れたり
12 They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
彼ら夜を晝に變ふ 黒暗の前に光明ちかづく
我もし俟つところ有ば是わが家たるべき陰府なるのみ 我は黒暗にわが牀を展ぶ (Sheol h7585)
14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
われ朽腐に向ひては汝はわが父なりと言ひ 蛆に向ひては汝は我母わが姉妹なりと言ふ
15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
然ばわが望はいづくにかある 我望は誰かこれを見る者あらん
