約伯記 17
1 我的心靈消耗，我的日子滅盡； 墳墓為我預備好了。
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
2 真有戲笑我的在我這裏， 我眼常見他們惹動我。
Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.
3 願主拿憑據給我，自己為我作保。 在你以外誰肯與我擊掌呢？
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself. Who is there that will strike hands with me?
4 因你使他們心不明理， 所以你必不高舉他們。
For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt them.
5 控告他的朋友、以朋友為可搶奪的， 連他兒女的眼睛也要失明。
He who denounces his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.
6 上帝使我作了民中的笑談； 他們也吐唾沫在我臉上。
But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.
7 我的眼睛因憂愁昏花； 我的百體好像影兒。
My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 正直人因此必驚奇； 無辜的人要興起攻擊不敬虔之輩。
Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the profane.
9 然而，義人要持守所行的道； 手潔的人要力上加力。
Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
10 至於你們眾人，可以再來辯論吧！ 你們中間，我找不着一個智慧人。
But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
11 我的日子已經過了； 我的謀算、我心所想望的已經斷絕。
My days are past. My purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12 他們以黑夜為白晝， 說：亮光近乎黑暗。
They change the night into day. The light, they say, is near to the darkness.
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, (Sheol h7585)
14 若對朽壞說：你是我的父； 對蟲說：你是我的母親姊妹；
if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
15 這樣，我的指望在哪裏呢？ 我所指望的誰能看見呢？
where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
