Job 35

1 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

エリフまた答へて曰く

2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

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 thou saidst, What advantage will it be to thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my 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 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

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 to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

天を仰ぎて見よ 汝の上なる高き空を望め

6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to 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 If thou art righteous, what givest thou to him? or what receiveth he from thy 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 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of 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 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth 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 teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

地の獸畜よりも善くわれらを教へ 空の鳥よりも我らを智からしめたまふ者なり

12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

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 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

虚しき語を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 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in 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 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

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 doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth 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