Job 35
1 After this, Eliu again spoke in this way:
エリフまた答へて曰く
2 Does it seem right to you in your thoughts, that you should say, “I am more just than God?”
なんぢは言ふ 我が義しきは神に愈れりと なんぢ之を正しとおもふや
3 For you said, “Having done what is right does not please you,” and, “How will it benefit you, if I sin?”
すなはち汝いへらく 是は我に何の益あらんや 罪を犯すに較ぶれば何の愈るところか有んと
4 And so, I will respond to your words, and to your friends who are with you.
われ言詞をもて汝およびなんぢにそへる汝の友等に答へん
5 Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you.
天を仰ぎて見よ 汝の上なる高き空を望め
6 If you sin, how will it hurt him? And if your iniquities are multiplied, what will you do against him?
なんぢ罪を犯すとも神に何の害か有ん 愆を熾んにするとも神に何を爲えんや
7 Furthermore, if you act justly, what will you give him, or what will he receive from your hand?
汝正義かるとも神に何を與るを得んや 神なんぢの手より何をか受たまはん
8 Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man.
なんぢの惡は只なんぢに同じき人を損ぜん而已 なんぢの善は只人の子を益せんのみ
9 Because of the multitude of false accusers, they will cry out; and they will lament because of the strong arm of the tyrants.
暴虐の甚だしきに因て叫び 權勢ある者の腕に壓れて呼はる人々あり
10 Yet he has not said: “Where is God, who made me, who has given songs in the night,
然れども一人として我を造れる神は何處にいますやといふ者なし 彼は人をして夜の中に歌を歌ふに至らしめ
11 who teaches us in addition to the beasts of the earth, and who educates us along with the birds of the air?”
地の獸畜よりも善くわれらを敎へ 空の鳥よりも我らを智からしめたまふ者なり
12 There they will cry, and he will not heed them, because of the arrogance of the wicked.
惡き者等の驕傲ぶるに因て斯のごとく人々叫べども應ふる者あらず
13 Therefore, God does not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into each and every case.
虚しき語は神かならず之を聽たまはず 全能者これを顧みたまはじ
14 And so, when you say, “He does not examine,” be judged before him, but wait for him.
汝は我かれを見たてまつらずと言といへども審判は神の前にあり この故に汝彼を待べきなり
15 For, at the present time, he does not bring forth his fury, nor does he punish sin exceedingly.
今かれ震怒をもて罰することを爲ず 罪愆を深く心に留たまはざる(が如くなる)に因て
16 Therefore, Job has opened his mouth in vain and has multiplied words without knowledge.
ヨブ口を啓きて虚しき事を述べ無知の言語を繁くす
