Job 17
1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
わが氣息は已にくさり 我日すでに盡なんとし墳墓われを待つ
2 Are there not mockers with me? and does not mine eye continue in their provocation?
まことに嘲弄者等わが傍に在り 我目は彼らの辨爭ふを常に見ざるを得ず
3 Lay down now, put me in a guarantor with you; who is he that will shake hands with me?
願くは質を賜ふて汝みづから我の保證となりたまへ 誰か他にわが手をうつ者あらんや
4 For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.
汝彼らの心を閉て悟るところ無らしめたまへり 必ず彼らをして愈らしめたまはじ
5 He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
朋友を交付して掠奪に遭しむる者は其子等の目潰るべし
6 He has made me also a byword of the people; and in old times I was as a timbrel.
彼われを世の民の笑柄とならしめたまふ 我は面に唾せらるべき者となれり
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
かつまた我目は憂愁によりて昏み 肢體は凡て影のごとし
8 Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
義しき者は之に驚き 無辜者は邪曲なる者を見て憤ほる
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
然ながら義しき者はその道を堅く持ち 手に潔淨き者はますます力を得るなり
10 But as for you all, do all of you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
請ふ汝ら皆ふたたび來れ 我は汝らの中に一人も智き者あるを見ざるなり
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
わが日は已に過ぎ わが計る所わが心に冀ふ所は已に敗れたり
12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
彼ら夜を晝に變ふ 黒暗の前に光明ちかづく
我もし俟つところ有ば是わが家たるべき陰府なるのみ 我は黒暗にわが牀を展ぶ (Sheol h7585)
14 I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.
われ朽腐に向ひては汝はわが父なりと言ひ 蛆に向ひては汝は我母わが姉妹なりと言ふ
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
然ばわが望はいづくにかある 我望は誰かこれを見る者あらん
