約伯記 Job

16:1	[hb5]	約伯回答說、
	[bbe]	And Job made answer and said,
16:2	[hb5]	這樣的話我聽了許多．你們安慰人、反叫人愁煩。
	[bbe]	Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
16:3	[hb5]	虛空的言語有窮盡麼．有甚麼話惹動你回答呢。
	[bbe]	May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
16:4	[hb5]	我也能說你們那樣的話．你們若處在我的境遇、我也會聯絡言語攻擊你們、又能向你們搖頭。
	[bbe]	It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:
16:5	[hb5]	但我必用口堅固你們、用嘴消解你們的憂愁。
	[bbe]	I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
16:6	[hb5]	我雖說話、憂愁仍不得消解．我雖停住不說、憂愁就離開我麼。
	[bbe]	If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
16:7	[hb5]	但現在　神使我困倦．使親友遠離我。
	[bbe]	But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
16:8	[hb5]	又抓住我、作見證攻擊我．我身體的枯瘦也當面見證我的不是。
	[bbe]	It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
16:9	[hb5]	主發怒撕裂我、逼迫我、向我切齒．我的敵人怒目看我。
	[bbe]	I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
16:10	[hb5]	他們向我開口、打我的臉羞辱我、聚會攻擊我。
	[bbe]	Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.
16:11	[hb5]	神把我交給不敬虔的人、把我扔到惡人的手中。
	[bbe]	God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
16:12	[hb5]	我素來安逸、他折斷我、掐住我的頸項、把我摔碎、又立我為他的箭靶子。
	[bbe]	I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
16:13	[hb5]	他的弓箭手四面圍繞我．他破裂我的肺腑、並不留情．把我的膽傾倒在地上．
	[bbe]	His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
16:14	[hb5]	將我破裂又破裂．如同勇士向我直闖。
	[bbe]	I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
16:15	[hb5]	我縫麻布在我皮膚上、把我的角放在塵土中。
	[bbe]	I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
16:16	[hb5]	我的臉、因哭泣發紫、在我的眼皮上有死蔭。
	[bbe]	My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
16:17	[hb5]	我的手中、卻無強暴、我的祈禱、也是清潔。
	[bbe]	Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
16:18	[hb5]	地阿、不要遮蓋我的血、不要阻擋我的哀求。
	[bbe]	O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!
16:19	[hb5]	現今、在天有我的見證、在上有我的中保。
	[bbe]	Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.
16:20	[hb5]	我的朋友譏誚我．我卻向　神眼淚汪汪．
	[bbe]	My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
16:21	[hb5]	願人得與　神辯白、如同人與朋友辯白一樣。
	[bbe]	So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
16:22	[hb5]	因為再過幾年、我必走那往而不返之路。
	[bbe]	For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.