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約伯記-Job 第 16 章

16:1	約伯回答說， Then Job answered and said,
16:2	這樣的話我聽了許多；你們安慰人，卻都是叫人愁煩。 I have heard many such things; Troubling comforters are you all.
16:3	虛空如風的言語有窮盡麼？有什麼惹動你這樣回答呢？ Do words of wind have an end? Or what has provoked you that you so respond?
16:4	我也能像你們這樣說話，如果你們的心境像我現在的心境，我也會編撰言語攻擊你們，又向你們搖頭。 I also could speak like you, If your soul were in my soul's stead; I could join my words together against you And shake my head at you.
16:5	我能用口堅固你們，我動嘴唇，就能消減你們的痛苦。 I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the movement of my lips would mitigate your pain.
16:6	我若說話，痛苦仍不得消減；我若忍住不說，有多少痛苦會離開我呢？ If I speak, my pain is not mitigated; And if I forbear, how much departs from me?
16:7	但現在神使我困乏，使我的親友都離棄我； But now He has worn me out; You have desolated all my company.
16:8	又抓住我，作見證攻擊我；我身體的枯瘦也當麵見證我的不是。 And You have seized me; it is a testimony against me; And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.
16:9	主發怒撕裂我，敵對我，向我咬牙切齒。我的敵人以銳利的眼看著我。 In His wrath He has torn me to pieces and been adverse toward me; He has gnashed His teeth at me. My Adversary sharpens His eyes at me.
16:10	他們向我開口，打我的臉羞辱我，聚集一起攻擊我。 With their mouth they gape at me; They strike my cheek reproachfully; They mass themselves together against me.
16:11	神把我交給不公正的人，把我扔到惡人的手中。 God has delivered me over to the unjust And cast me down into the hands of the wicked.
16:12	我素來安逸，祂折斷我，掐住我的頸項，把我摔碎。祂立我作祂的箭靶； I was at ease, and He broke me apart; Indeed He took me by my neck and dashed me to pieces. And He set me up as His target;
16:13	祂的弓箭手圍繞我；祂破裂我的腰腎，並不留情；把我的膽傾倒在地上。 His archers surrounded me; He split open my kidneys and did not desist; He poured out my gall upon the earth.
16:14	祂將我破裂又破裂；如同勇士向我直闖。 He broke me open with breach upon breach; He ran at me like a mighty man of war.
16:15	我縫麻布在我皮膚上，把我的角插在塵土中。 I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin And have cast my horn into the dust.
16:16	我的臉因哭泣發紅，在我的眼皮上有死蔭； My face is reddened with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
16:17	我的手中卻無強暴，我的禱告也是清潔。 Though there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
16:18	地阿，不要遮蓋我的血，願我的哀號不受阻擋。 O earth, do not cover my blood; And let there be no resting place for my crying out.
16:19	現今在天上有我的見證人，在高處有我的作證者。 Even now, there in heaven is my Witness, And He who vouches for me is in the heights.
16:20	我的朋友譏誚我；我向神眼淚汪汪， My friends deride me; My eye pours out tears to God,
16:21	願祂在人與神的爭訟中為人辯白，並在世人與鄰舍的爭訟中為世人辯白。 That He would plead for a man in his case with God And for a son of man in his case with his neighbor.
16:22	因為再過幾年，我必走那往而不返之路。 For when years few in number have come, I will go the way from which I cannot return.

約伯記-Job 第 16 章