Job 23

1 And Job answereth and saith: —

ヨブこたへて曰く

2 Also — to-day [is] my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

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 O that I had known — and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

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 arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill [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 know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith 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 In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth [it] in 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 doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from 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 Lo, forward I go — and He is not, And backward — and I perceive him not.

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 left in His working — and I see not, He is covered [on] the right, and I behold not.

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 For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me — as gold I go forth.

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 On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn 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 The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

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 And He [is] in one [mind], And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired — and He doth [it].

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 doth complete my portion, And many such things [are] with Him.

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, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and 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 And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath troubled 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 For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

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