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, seeing times are not hid from the Almighty, do they that 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、
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and their feed.
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 hide themselves together.
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; rising early for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
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 reap every one his grain in the field: and they gather 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 cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they 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。）
They 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、
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
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。
Who make oil within their walls, and 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。
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
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。
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
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 rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night 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 waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth 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, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not 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 them even as the shadow of death: if one knoweth them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
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。
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave 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 wickedness 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 wrongeth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not 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。
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure 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。
Though it is given him to be in safety, on which he resteth; yet 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 for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the heads 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 is not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech of no worth?
