Job 19
1 Job replied,
約伯回答說：
2 “How long will you go on tormenting me? How long will you go on crushing me with words?
你們攪擾我的心， 用言語壓碎我要到幾時呢？
3 Ten times already you have humiliated me. Aren't you ashamed for treating me so badly?
你們這十次羞辱我； 你們苦待我也不以為恥。
4 Even if I did sin, that's my problem, and has nothing to do with you.
果真我有錯， 這錯乃是在我。
5 You think you're so much better than me, and you use my degradation against me.
你們果然要向我誇大， 以我的羞辱為證指責我，
6 But you should realize that it's God who has wronged me, he has trapped me in his net.
就該知道是上帝傾覆我， 用網羅圍繞我。
7 Even though I cry for help, I get no answer; even though I shout my objections, I get no justice.
我因委曲呼叫，卻不蒙應允； 我呼求，卻不得公斷。
8 God has walled me in so I can't escape; he has plunged my path into darkness.
上帝用籬笆攔住我的道路，使我不得經過； 又使我的路徑黑暗。
9 He has stripped my honor from me; he has taken away my reputation.
他剝去我的榮光， 摘去我頭上的冠冕。
10 He tears me down from all sides until I am finished; he has destroyed my hope like a tree that is uprooted.
他在四圍攻擊我，我便歸於死亡， 將我的指望如樹拔出來。
11 His anger burns against me; he treats me as one of his enemies.
他的忿怒向我發作， 以我為敵人。
12 God's troops assemble to attack me. They build ramparts against me. They encircle and besiege my home.
他的軍旅一齊上來， 修築戰路攻擊我， 在我帳棚的四圍安營。
13 He has driven my brothers far away from me; all my former friends are estranged from me.
他把我的弟兄隔在遠處， 使我所認識的全然與我生疏。
14 My relatives have abandoned me; my close friends have forgotten me.
我的親戚與我斷絕； 我的密友都忘記我。
15 My house guests and my maidservants treat me as a stranger—to them I have become a foreigner.
在我家寄居的， 和我的使女都以我為外人； 我在他們眼中看為外邦人。
16 I call my servant, but he doesn't reply. I have to beg him!
我呼喚僕人， 雖用口求他，他還是不回答。
17 I am repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own brothers.
我口的氣味，我妻子厭惡； 我的懇求，我同胞也憎嫌。
18 Even young children despise me; when I stand up they ridicule me.
連小孩子也藐視我； 我若起來，他們都嘲笑我。
19 All my closest friends despise me, and those I loved have turned on me.
我的密友都憎惡我； 我平日所愛的人向我翻臉。
20 I've been reduced to skin and bones and I survive by the skin of my teeth.
我的皮肉緊貼骨頭； 我只剩牙皮逃脫了。
21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, because God has struck me down!
我朋友啊，可憐我！可憐我！ 因為上帝的手攻擊我。
22 Why are you persecuting me like God does? Aren't you satisfied with getting your pound of flesh?
你們為甚麼彷彿上帝逼迫我， 吃我的肉還以為不足呢？
23 I wish my words could be written down, recorded in a book,
惟願我的言語現在寫上， 都記錄在書上；
24 or engraved with an iron pen and molten lead in the rock forever.
用鐵筆鐫刻， 用鉛灌在磐石上，直存到永遠。
25 I know my Redeemer is alive, and that he shall finally take the stand for me on the earth.
我知道我的救贖主活着， 末了必站立在地上。
26 Even though my skin is destroyed, in my body I shall see God.
我這皮肉滅絕之後， 我必在肉體之外得見上帝。
27 I myself will see him—with my own eyes, and not those of someone else! The thought overcomes me!
我自己要見他， 親眼要看他，並不像外人。 我的心腸在我裏面消滅了！
28 You say to yourselves, ‘How can we make him suffer so he can see he is the source of his problems?’
你們若說：我們逼迫他要何等地重呢？ 惹事的根乃在乎他；
29 You yourselves should fear being punished by God, for you know anger brings God's punishment that accompanies judgment.”
你們就當懼怕刀劍； 因為忿怒惹動刀劍的刑罰， 使你們知道有報應。
