ヨブ 記 14
1 婦の產む人はその日少なくして艱難多し
Man, born of 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 cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth 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
Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
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 [man] out of the 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
If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, [and] thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not 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
Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, 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 for a tree: if it be cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease;
8 たとひ其根地の中に老い 幹土に枯るとも
Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stock 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 put forth boughs like a young plant.
10 然ど人は死れば消うす 人氣絶なば安に在んや
But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?
11 水は海に竭き河は涸てかわく
The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth 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 lieth down, and riseth not again; till the heavens be no more, they do not awake, nor are raised out of their sleep.
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, — (Sheol h7585)
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 time of toil would I wait, till my change should 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
Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest have a desire after the work of thy 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 thou numberest my steps: dost thou 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 thou heapest 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 indeed a mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of its 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, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest 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
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth away; thou changest his countenance, and dismissest him.
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 knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not.
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 hath pain for himself alone, and his soul mourneth for himself.
