Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu answered,

エリフまた答へて曰く

2 “Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

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 that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than 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, and your companions with you.

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 to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are 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 effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, 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 do you give him? Or what does 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, and your righteousness may profit a 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 “By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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 the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

地の獸畜よりも善くわれらを教へ 空の鳥よりも我らを智からしめたまふ者なり

12 There they cry, but no one answers, 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 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

虚しき語を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 when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait 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 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance,

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 therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies 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