约伯记 16
1 约伯回答说：
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; you are all miserable comforters.
3 虚空的言语有穷尽吗？ 有什么话惹动你回答呢？
Will useless words ever have an end? What is wrong with you that you answer like this?
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 you do, if you were in my place; I could collect and join words together against you and shake my head at you in mockery.
5 但我必用口坚固你们， 用嘴消解你们的忧愁。
I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the quivering of my lips will bring you relief!
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？
If I speak, my grief is not lessened; if I keep from speaking, how am I helped?
7 但现在 神使我困倦， 使亲友远离我，
But now, God, you have made me weary; you have made all my family desolate.
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。
You have made me dry up, which itself is a witness against me; the leanness of my body rises up against me, and it testifies against my face.
9 主发怒撕裂我，逼迫我， 向我切齿； 我的敌人怒目看我。
God has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me; He grinds his teeth in rage; my enemy fastens his eyes on me as he tears me apart.
10 他们向我开口， 打我的脸羞辱我， 聚会攻击我。
People have gaped with open mouth at me; they have hit me reproachfully on the cheek; they have gathered together against me.
11 神把我交给不敬虔的人， 把我扔到恶人的手中。
God hands me over to ungodly people, and throws me into the hands of wicked people.
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 broke me apart. Indeed, he has taken me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he has also set me up as his target.
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 surround me all around; God pierces my kidneys and does not spare me; he pours out my bile on the ground.
14 将我破裂又破裂， 如同勇士向我直闯。
He smashes through my wall again and again; he runs upon me like a warrior.
15 我缝麻布在我皮肤上， 把我的角放在尘土中。
I have sewn sackcloth on my skin; I have thrust my horn into the ground.
16 我的脸因哭泣发紫， 在我的眼皮上有死荫。
My face is red with weeping; on my eyelids is the shadow of death
17 我的手中却无强暴； 我的祈祷也是清洁。
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18 地啊，不要遮盖我的血！ 不要阻挡我的哀求！
Earth, do not cover up my blood; let my cry have no resting place.
19 现今，在天有我的见证， 在上有我的中保。
Even now, see, my witness is in heaven; he who vouches for me is on high.
20 我的朋友讥诮我， 我却向 神眼泪汪汪。
My friends scoff at me, but my eye pours out tears to God.
21 愿人得与 神辩白， 如同人与朋友辩白一样；
I ask for that witness in heaven to argue for this man with God as a man does with his neighbor!
22 因为再过几年， 我必走那往而不返之路。
For when a few years have passed, I will go to a place from where I will not return.
