ヨブ 記 8

1 時にシユヒ人ビルダデ答へて曰く

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

2 何時まで汝かかる事を言や 何時まで汝の口の言語を大風のごとくにするや

How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

3 神あに審判を曲たまはんや 全能者あに公義を曲たまはんや

Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?

4 汝の子等かれに罪を獲たるにや之をその愆の手に付したまへり

If your children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

5 汝もし神に求め 全能者に祈り

If you would seek unto God early, and make your supplication to the Almighty;

6 清くかつ正しうしてあらば必ず今汝を顧み汝の義き家を榮えしめたまはん

If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

7 然らば汝の始は微小くあるとも汝の終は甚だ大ならん

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.

8 請ふ汝過にし代の人に問へ 彼らの父祖の尋究めしところの事を學べ

For enquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:

9 (我らは昨日より有しのみにて何をも知ず 我らが世にある日は影のごとし)

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow: )

10 彼等なんぢを敎へ汝を諭し 言をその心より出さざらんや

Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

11 葦あに泥なくして長んや 萩あに水なくしてそだたんや

Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

12 是はその靑くして未だ刈ざる時にも他の一切の草よりは早く槁る

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

13 神を忘るる者の道は凡て是のごとく 悖る者の望は空しくなる

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

14 その恃む所は絶れ その倚ところは蜘蛛網のごとし

Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

15 その家に倚かからんとすれば家立ず 之に堅くとりすがるも保たじ

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

16 彼日の前に靑緑を呈はし その枝を園に蔓延らせ

He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.

17 その根を石堆に盤みて石の屋を眺むれども

His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones.

18 若その處より取のぞかれなばその處これを認めずして我は汝を見たる事なしと言ん

If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you.

19 視よその道の喜樂是のごとし 而してまた他の者地より生いでん

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

20 それ神は完全人を棄たまはず また惡き者の手を執りたまはず

Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

21 遂に哂笑をもて汝の口に充し歡喜を汝の唇に置たまはん

Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.

22 汝を惡む者は羞恥を着せられ 惡き者の住所は無なるべし

They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.