< ヨブ 記 15 >
Then Eliphaz replied to Job:
2 「知者はむなしき知識をもって答えるであろうか。東風をもってその腹を満たすであろうか。
“If you were truly wise [RHQ], you would not have replied to us by claiming that you know a lot; what you are saying is just a lot of hot air [MET].
3 役に立たない談話をもって論じるであろうか。無益な言葉をもって争うであろうか。
You should not [RHQ] be saying things that do not benefit anyone, using words that do no one any good.
4 ところがあなたは神を恐れることを捨て、神の前に祈る事をやめている。
[By what you say, ] you show that you do not revere God, and you are hindering people from meditating/thinking about God.
5 あなたの罪はあなたの口を教え、あなたは悪賢い人の舌を選び用いる。
[It is as though] your sins are telling you what to say; you talk like people who will not admit that they are wicked.
6 あなたの口みずからあなたの罪を定める、わたしではない。あなたのくちびるがあなたに逆らって証明する。
Everything that you say [MTY] shows that you should be punished; so, it is not necessary for me to show that.
7 あなたは最初に生れた人であるのか。山よりも先に生れたのか。
[“Tell me do you know more than everyone else because you think that] you are the first person who was ever born? [SAR, RHQ] Were you born before the hills [were created]?
8 あなたは神の会議にあずかったのか。あなたは知恵を独占しているのか。
Were you listening when God made all his plans? [SAR, RHQ] Or do you think that you are the only person who is wise?
9 あなたが知るものはわれわれも知るではないか。あなたが悟るものはわれわれも悟るではないか。
(What do you know that we do not know?/You do not know anything that we do not know.) [RHQ] You do not understand [RHQ] anything that is not also clear to us.
10 われわれの中にはしらがの人も、年老いた人もあって、あなたの父よりも年上だ。
My friends and I are also wise; we acquired [wisdom] from old gray-haired people, from people who were born before your father was born.
11 神の慰めおよびあなたに対するやさしい言葉も、あなたにとって、あまりに小さいというのか。
God wants to comfort you, and to speak gently/kindly to you; (is that not enough for you/do you need more than that)?
12 どうしてあなたの心は狂うのか。どうしてあなたの目はしばたたくのか。
Why do you allow yourself to be (carried away/excited) by your emotions? Why are [you very angry, with the result that] your eyes flash?
13 あなたが神にむかって気をいらだて、このような言葉をあなたの口から出すのはなぜか。
You are angry [IDM] with God, and so you [MTY] are criticizing/denouncing him.
14 人はいかなる者か、どうしてこれは清くありえよう。女から生れた者は、どうして正しくありえよう。
“(How can any person, [including you, ] be sinless?/No person, [including you], can be sinless.) [RHQ] (How can anyone on the earth be [completely] righteous?/No one on the earth can be [completely] righteous.) [RHQ]
15 見よ、神はその聖なる者にすら信を置かれない、もろもろの天も彼の目には清くない。
Hey, God does not even trust his angels; he does not consider even them to be [completely] pure.
16 まして憎むべき汚れた者、また不義を水のように飲む人においては。
So, he certainly does not [trust] abominable/disgusting and depraved/corrupt people who do evil things [as easily] as they drink water [MET].
17 わたしはあなたに語ろう、聞くがよい。わたしは自分の見た事を述べよう。
Job, listen to what I will tell you. I will declare to you what I know,
18 これは知者たちがその先祖からうけて、隠す所なく語り伝えたものである。
things that wise men have told me, truths that their ancestors did not keep hidden.
19 彼らにのみこの地は授けられて、他国人はその中に行き来したことがなかった。
God gave this land to those ancestors, who were truly wise; no one from another country caused them to think wrongly [IDM].
20 悪しき人は一生の間、もだえ苦しむ。残酷な人には年の数が定められている。
It is wicked people who suffer with great pain all the time that they are alive; that is what happens to those who (oppress/act violently toward) others.
21 その耳には恐ろしい音が聞え、繁栄の時にも滅ぼす者が彼に臨む。
They constantly hear sounds that terrify them; while they are prospering, bandits attack them.
22 彼は、暗やみから帰りうるとは信ぜず、つるぎにねらわれる。
Wicked people surely know that they will not escape from darkness/death, because [they are sure that someone] is waiting to kill them with a sword.
23 彼は食物はどこにあるかと言いつつさまよい、暗き日が手近に備えられてあるのを知る。
They wander around, searching for food, saying ‘Where can I find some?’ And they know that they will soon experience disasters.
24 悩みと苦しみとが彼を恐れさせ、戦いの備えをした王のように彼に打ち勝つ。
Because they are afraid of those things happening to them, they are afraid and worry that these things will come to them like [the army of] a king comes to attack [their enemies and cause them to suffer] [SIM].
25 これは彼が神に逆らってその手を伸べ、全能者に逆らって高慢にふるまい、
[Those things happen to them] because they (shook their fists/dared to fight) against Almighty God, and thought that they were strong enough to defeat him.
26 盾の厚い面をもって強情に、彼にはせ向かうからだ。
They stubbornly [IDM] rush to attack God [as though they were carrying] a strong shield [to protect themselves].
27 また彼は脂肪をもってその顔をおおい、その腰には脂肪の肉を集め、
They are so fat [that they are unable to fight].
28 滅ぼされた町々に住み、人の住まない家、荒塚となる所におるからだ。
They will live in cities that have been abandoned, cities which have become a heap of ruins.
29 彼は富める者とならず、その富はながく続かない、また地に根を張ることはない。
But they will not remain rich very long; Everything that they own will be taken from them; their possessions will all disappear.
30 彼は暗やみからのがれることができない。炎はその若枝を枯らし、その花は風に吹き去られる。
They will not escape from the darkness [of death]; they will be like trees whose branches are burned by fire and whose blossoms are blown away by the wind.
31 彼をしてみずから欺いて、むなしい事にたよらせてはならない。その報いはむなしいからだ。
Since they are very foolish, with the result that they trust in things that are really worthless, then things that are worthless will be all that they get.
32 彼の時のこない前にその事がなし遂げられ、彼の枝は緑とならないであろう。
Before they are old, they will wither; they will be like [MET] branches that wither and never become green again.
33 彼はぶどうの木のように、その熟さない実をふり落すであろう。またオリブの木のように、その花を落すであろう。
They will be like [SIM] vines whose grapes fall off before they are ripe, like olive trees whose blossoms fall off before they produce any fruit.
34 神を信じない者のやからは子なく、まいないによる天幕は火で焼き滅ぼされるからだ。
Wicked/godless people will not have any descendants, and fires will completely burn up the homes of [those who built those homes using] money they received from bribes.
35 彼らは害悪をはらみ、不義を生み、その腹は偽りをつくる」。
They plan to cause trouble and to do evil things, and they are always preparing to deceive people.”