Job 33
1 “However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
然ばヨブよ請ふ我が言ふ事を聽け わが一切の言語に耳を傾むけよ
2 See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
視よ我口を啓き 舌を口の中に動かす
3 My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.
わが言ふ所は正義き心より出づ わが唇あきらかにその知識を陳ん
4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
神の靈われを造り 全能者の氣息われを活しむ
5 If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand up.
汝もし能せば我に答へよ わが前に言をいひつらねて立て
6 Behold, I am towards God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
我も汝とおなじく神の者なり 我もまた土より取てつくられしなり
7 Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my pressure be heavy on you.
わが威嚴はなんぢを懼れしめず わが勢はなんぢを壓せず
8 “Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
汝わが聽くところにて言談り 我なんぢの言語の聲を聞けり云く
9 ‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
われは潔淨くして愆なし 我は辜なく惡き事わが身にあらず
10 Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
視よ彼われを攻る釁隙を尋ね われを己の敵と算へ
11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’
わが脚を桎に夾めわが一切の擧動に目を着たまふと
12 “Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
視よ我なんぢに答へん なんぢ此事において正義からず 神は人よりも大なる者にいませり
13 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?
彼その凡て行なふところの理由を示したまはずとて汝かれにむかひて辯爭そふは何ぞや
14 For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.
まことに神は一度二度と告示したまふなれど人これを曉らざるなり
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed,
人熟睡する時または床に睡る時に夢あるひは夜の間の異象の中にて
16 then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
かれ人の耳をひらき その敎ふるところを印して堅うし
17 that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
斯して人にその惡き業を離れしめ 傲慢を人の中より除き
18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
人の魂靈を護りて墓に至らしめず 人の生命を護りて劍にほろびざらしめたまふ
19 “He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,
人床にありて疼痛に攻られ その骨の中に絶ず戰鬪のあるあり
20 so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
その氣食物を厭ひ その魂靈うまき物をも嫌ふ
21 His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
その肉は痩おちて見えず その骨は見えざりし者までも顯露になり
22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
その魂靈は墓に近より その生命は滅ぼす者に近づく
23 “If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one amongst a thousand, to show to man what is right for him,
しかる時にもし彼とともに一箇の使者あり 千の中の一箇にして中保となり 正しき道を人に示さば
24 then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’
神かれを憫れみて言給はん彼を救ひて墓にくだること無らしめよ 我すでに收贖の物を得たりと
25 His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.
その肉は小兒の肉よりも瑞々しくなり その若き時の形状に歸らん
26 He prays to God, and he is favourable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
かれ若し神に祷らば神かれを顧りみ 彼をしてその御面を喜こび見ることを得せしめたまはん 神は人の正義に報をなしたまふべし
27 He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
かれ人の前に歌ひて言ふ 我は罪を犯し正しきを抂たり 然ど報を蒙らず
28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’
神わが魂靈を贖ひて墓に下らしめず わが生命光明を見ん
29 “Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,
そもそも神は是等のもろもろの事をしばしば人におこなひ
30 to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
その魂靈を墓より牽かへし生命の光明をもて彼を照したまふ
31 Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.
ヨブよ耳を傾むけて我に聽け 請ふ默せよ 我かたらん
32 If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.
なんぢもし言ふべきことあらば我にこたへよ 請ふ語れ 我なんぢを義とせんと慾すればなり
33 If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”
もし無ば我に聽け 請ふ默せよ 我なんぢに智慧を敎へん
