Job 40
1 And the Lord addide, and spak to Joob,
上主又接著問約伯說：
2 Whether he, that stryueth with God, schal haue rest so liytli? Sotheli he, that repreueth God, owith for to answere to hym.
好辯之士，豈能同全能者辯論﹖非難天主的，請答覆這一切!
3 Forsothe Joob answeride to the Lord,
約伯回答上主說：「
4 and seide, What may Y answere, which haue spoke liytli? Y schal putte myn hond on my mouth.
看，我這麼卑賤，我能回答什麼﹖只好用手掩口。
5 Y spak o thing, which thing Y wold, that Y hadde not seid; and Y spak anothir thing, to which Y schal no more adde.
我說過一次，再不敢重複；我再說一次：我不敢再說什麼! 」
6 Forsothe the Lord answeride to Joob fro the whirlewynd,
上主由旋風中回答約伯說：
7 and seide, Girde thou as a man thi leendis, and Y schal axe thee, and schewe thou to me.
你要像勇士束好腰，我要問你，請指教我。
8 Whether thou schalt make voide my doom, and schalt condempne me, that thou be maad iust?
你豈能推翻我的評斷，歸罪於我，而自以為有理﹖
9 And if thou hast an arm, as God hath, and if thou thundrist with lijk vois, `take thou fairnesse aboute thee,
你的手臂豈能同天主的相比﹖你的聲音，那能像雷鳴﹖
10 and be thou reisid an hiy, and be thou gloriouse, and be thou clothid `in faire clothis.
請你以尊貴和高雅作你的點綴，以光華美麗作你的衣裳；
11 Distrie thou proude men in thi woodnesse, and biholde thou, and make lowe ech bostere.
發洩你的烈怒，貶抑一切高傲的人；
12 Biholde thou alle proude men, and schende thou hem; and al to-breke thou wickid men in her place.
視察一切傲慢的人，且加以制服，推翻惡人所處的地位；
13 Hide thou hem in dust togidere, and drenche doun her faces in to a diche.
將他們一同埋在土中，把他們都關在黑暗中!
14 And Y schal knowleche, that thi riyt hond may saue thee.
如果你能這樣作，我也要稱讚你，因為你的右手救護了你。
15 Lo! behemot, whom Y made with thee, schal as an oxe ete hey.
且看河馬，牠同你都是我造成的，牠像牛一樣吃草。
16 His strengthe is in hise leendis, and his vertu is in the nawle of his wombe.
牠的精力全在腰部，牠的力量是在腹部的肌肉；
17 He streyneth his tail as a cedre; the senewis of his `stones of gendrure ben foldid togidere.
牠挺起尾巴好像香柏，大腿上的筋聯結在一起；
18 Hise boonys ben as the pipis of bras; the gristil of hym is as platis of yrun.
牠的脊骨好似銅管，牠的骨骸有如鐵杠。
19 He is the bigynnyng of the weies of God; he, that made hym, schal sette his swerd to hym.
牠是天主的傑作，造牠者賜給了牠利刃。
20 Hillis beren eerbis to this behemot; alle the beestis of the feeld pleien there.
群山供給牠食物，百獸在那裏同牠遊戲。
21 He slepith vndur schadewe, in the pryuete of rehed, in moiste places.
牠臥在蓮葉之下，躺在蘆葦和沼澤深處；
22 Schadewis hilen his schadewe; the salewis of the ryuer cumpassen hym.
蓮葉的蔭影遮蔽著牠，溪邊的楊柳掩護著牠。
23 He schal soupe vp the flood, and he schal not wondre; he hath trist, that Jordan schal flowe in to his mouth.
河水漲溢之時，牠毫不戰慄；約但河漲到牠口邊，牠仍安寧。
24 He schal take hem bi `the iyen of hym, as bi an hook; and bi scharpe schaftis he schal perse hise nosethirlis.
誰能在牠目前捕捉牠，或以木橛穿透牠的鼻孔﹖
