< 约伯记 16 >
Then Job answered and said,
2 这样的话我听了许多; 你们安慰人,反叫人愁烦。
I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
4 我也能说你们那样的话; 你们若处在我的境遇, 我也会联络言语攻击你们, 又能向你们摇头。
I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.
[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage [your grief].
6 我虽说话,忧愁仍不得消解; 我虽停住不说,忧愁就离开我吗?
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?
But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.
8 又抓住我,作见证攻击我; 我身体的枯瘦也当面见证我的不是。
And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.
9 主发怒撕裂我,逼迫我, 向我切齿; 我的敌人怒目看我。
He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10 他们向我开口, 打我的脸羞辱我, 聚会攻击我。
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.
11 神把我交给不敬虔的人, 把我扔到恶人的手中。
God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
12 我素来安逸,他折断我, 掐住我的颈项,把我摔碎, 又立我为他的箭靶子。
I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.
13 他的弓箭手四面围绕我; 他破裂我的肺腑,并不留情, 把我的胆倾倒在地上,
His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.
My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no [resting]-place.
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high.
My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.