< ヨブ 記 14 >
Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
2 その來ること花のごとくにして散り 其馳ること影のごとくにして止まらず
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
3 なんぢ是のごとき者に汝の目を啓きたまふや 汝われを汝の前にひきて審判したまふや
And does you open your eyes upon such an one, and bring me into judgment with you?
4 誰か清き物を汚れたる物の中より出し得る者あらん 一人も無し
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
5 その日旣に定まり その月の數なんぢに由り 汝これが區域を立て越ざらしめたまふなれば
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6 是に目を離して安息を得させ 之をして傭人のその日を樂しむがごとくならしめたまへ
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a worker, his day.
7 それ木には望あり 假令砍るるとも復芽を出してその枝絶ず
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9 水の潤霑にあへば即ち芽をふき枝を出して若樹に異ならず
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up:
12 是のごとく人も寢臥てまた興ず 天の盡るまで目覺ず睡眠を醒さざるなり
So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13 願はくは汝われを陰府に藏し 汝の震怒の息むまで我を掩ひ 我ために期を定め而して我を念ひたまへ (Sheol )
O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! (Sheol )
14 人もし死ばまた生んや 我はわが征戰の諸日の間望みをりて我が變更の來るを待ん
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15 なんぢ我を呼たまはん 而して我こたへん 汝かならず汝の手の作を顧みたまはん
You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.
16 今なんぢは我に歩履を數へたまふ 我罪を汝うかがひたまはざらんや
For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin?
17 わが愆は凡て嚢の中に封じてあり汝わが罪を縫こめたまふ
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up mine iniquity.
18 それ山も倒れて終に崩れ巖石も移りてその處を離る
And surely the mountains falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of his place.
19 水は石を鑿ち 浪は地の塵を押流す 汝は人の望を斷たまふ
The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroys the hope of man.
20 なんぢは彼を永く攻なやまして去ゆかしめ 彼の面容の變らせて逐やりたまふ
You prevail for ever against him, and he passes: you change his countenance, and send him away.
21 その子尊貴なるも彼は之を知ず 卑賤なるもまた之を曉らざるなり
His sons come to honour, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.
22 只己みづからその肉に痛苦を覺え己みづからその心に哀く而已
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.