Job
Chapter 16
1 Then Job answered and said:
约伯回答说：
2 I have heard this sort of thing many times. Wearisome comforters are you all!
象这样的话，我听了许多；你们的安慰反使人烦恼。
3 Is there no end to windy words? Or what sickness have you that you speak on?
这些风凉话何时了？或者有什么事迫你非说不可？
4 I also could talk as you do, were you in my place. I could declaim over you, or wag my head at you;
若是你们处在我的境遇中，我也会说象你们所说的话，也会花言巧语讥笑你们，向你们摇头。
5 I could strengthen you with talk, or shake my head with silent lips.
我也会以口舌宽慰你们，摇唇鼓舌来减轻你们的痛苦。
6 If I speak, this pain I have will not be checked; if I leave off, it will not depart from me.
我若讲话，痛苦并不停止；我若闭口不言，难道痛苦就离开我？
7 But now that I am exhausted and stunned, all my company has closed in on me.
现今天主的确叫我厌倦，使我每个亲人都远离了我；
8 As a witness there rises up my traducer, speaking openly against me;
使我憔悴，以指证我；使我消瘦，当面非难我。
9 I am the prey his wrath assails, he gnashes his teeth against me. My enemies lord it over me;
他在愤怒中撕裂我，窘迫我，向我咬牙切齿；我仇人锋利的眼睛常盯着我。
10 their mouths are agape to bite me. They smite me on the cheek insultingly; they are all enlisted against me.
他们张开大口想吞噬我，责骂着打我的面颊，一起拥上前来攻击我。
11 God has given me over to the impious; into the clutches of the wicked he has cast me.
天主将我交于不义之人，将我丢在恶人手中。
12 I was in peace, but he dislodged me; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He has set me up for a target;
我原来安宁，他却折磨我，抓住我的脖子，粉碎我，又拿我当作他的箭靶。
13 his arrows strike me from all directions, He pierces my sides without mercy, he pours out my gall upon the ground.
他的箭矢四面射击我，射穿我的腰，毫不留情，使我的胆倾流于地。
14 He pierces me with thrust upon thrust; he attacks me like a warrior.
他将我撕裂粉碎，有如武士向我跑来。
15 I have fastened sackcloth over my skin, and have laid my brow in the dust.
我缝麻衣包裹我的皮肤，使我额角插入尘土。
16 My face is inflamed with weeping and there is darkness over my eyes,
我的脸因哭泣发红，我睫眉间满是暗影；
17 Although my hands are free from violence, and my prayer is sincere.
我的手虽没有行过残暴的事，而我的祈祷，又往往纯正。
18 1 O earth, cover not my blood, nor let my outcry come to rest!
地啊！不要掩盖我的血。愿我的呼声无休息的余地！
19 2 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my spokesman is on high.
看啊！连现今在天上有我的见证，在高处有我的中保。
20 My friends it is who wrong me; before God my eyes drop tears,
我的哀号上彻于天，在天主前我的双目流泪不止。
21 That he may do justice for a mortal in his presence and decide between a man and his neighbor.
惟愿人与天主之间有一中人，犹如人与人之间一样！
22 For my years are numbered now, and I am on a journey from which I shall not return.
因为我的年数将尽，快要走上那条一去不返的路途。
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Footnotes（注解）
1 [18] As the blood of those who were unjustly slain cries to heaven for vengeance (Genesis 4:10; Ezekiel 24:6-9), so Job's sufferings demand redress.
2 [19] Witness: refers either to God or, more probably, to Job's prayer.