ヨブ 記 24
1 なにゆえ、全能者はさばきの時を定めておかれないのか。なにゆえ、彼を知る者がその日を見ないのか。
Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do those who know him not see his days?
2 世には地境を移す者、群れを奪ってそれを飼う者、
There are men who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.
3 みなしごのろばを追いやる者、やもめの牛を質に取る者、
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 貧しい者を道から押しのける者がある。世の弱い者は皆彼らをさけて身をかくす。
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5 見よ、彼らは荒野におる野ろばのように出て働き、野で獲物を求めて、その子らの食物とする。
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their sons.
6 彼らは畑でそのまぐさを刈り、また悪人のぶどう畑で拾い集める。
They cut their provender in the field, and they glean the vintage of the wicked.
7 彼らは着る物がなく、裸で夜を過ごし、寒さに身をおおうべき物もない。
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
8 彼らは山の雨にぬれ、しのぎ場もなく岩にすがる。
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 （みなしごをその母のふところから奪い、貧しい者の幼な子を質にとる者がある。）
There are men who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
10 彼らは着る物がなく、裸で歩き、飢えつつ麦束を運び、
so that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves.
11 悪人のオリブ並み木の中で油をしぼり、酒ぶねを踏んでも、かわきを覚える。
They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12 町の中から死のうめきが起り、傷ついた者の魂が助けを呼び求める。しかし神は彼らの祈を顧みられない。
From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.
13 光にそむく者たちがある。彼らは光の道を知らず、光の道にとどまらない。
These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.
14 人を殺す者は暗いうちに起き出て弱い者と貧しい者を殺し、夜は盗びととなる。
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. And in the night he is as a thief.
15 姦淫する者の目はたそがれを待って、『だれもわたしを見ていないだろう』と言い、顔におおう物を当てる。
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me. And he disguises his face.
16 彼らは暗やみで家をうがち、昼は閉じこもって光を知らない。
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.
17 彼らには暗黒は朝である。彼らは暗黒の恐れを友とするからだ。
For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness. For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
18 あなたがたは言う、『彼らは水のおもてにすみやかに流れ去り、その受ける分は地でのろわれ、酒ぶねを踏む者はだれも彼らのぶどう畑の道に行かない。
Swiftly they pass away upon the face of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn into the way of the vineyards.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters, and Sheol those who have sinned. (Sheol h7585)
20 町の広場は彼らを忘れ、彼らの名は覚えられることなく、不義は木の折られるように折られる』と。
The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
21 彼らは子を産まぬうまずめをくらい、やもめをあわれむことをしない。
He devours the barren who do not bear, and does no good to the widow.
22 しかし神はその力をもって、強い人々を生きながらえさせられる。彼らは生きる望みのない時にも起きあがる。
Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
23 神が彼らに安全を与えられるので、彼らは安らかである。神の目は彼らの道の上にある。
God gives them to be in security, and they rest in it. And his eyes are upon their ways.
24 彼らはしばし高められて、いなくなり、ぜにあおいのように枯れて消えうせ、麦の穂先のように切り取られる。
They are exalted. Yet a little while, and they are gone. Yea, they are brought low. They are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
25 もし、そうでないなら、だれがわたしにその偽りを証明し、わが言葉のむなしいことを示しうるだろうか」。
And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?
