Job 35

1 And Elihu answereth and saith: —

エリフまた答へて曰く

2 This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said — '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 For thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

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 return thee words, and thy friends with thee,

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 Behold attentively the heavens — and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.

天を仰ぎて見よ 汝の上なる高き空を望め

6 If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou 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 thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

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 For a man like thyself [is] thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.

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 the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because 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 And none said, 'Where [is] God my maker? Giving 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 Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

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, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.

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 vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold 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 Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stay 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 And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.

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 And Job [with] vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.

ヨブ口を啓きて虚しき事を述べ無知の言語を繁くす