Then Job answered and said:
Then Job answered and said:
我真知道是這樣；但人在神面前怎能成為義呢？
“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
若願意與他爭辯，千中之一也不能回答。
If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
他心裏有智慧，且大有能力。誰向神剛硬而得亨通呢？
He is wise in heart and mighty in strength — who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded? —
他發怒，把山翻倒挪移，山並不知覺。
he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger,
他使地震動，離其本位，地的柱子就搖撼。
who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
他吩咐日頭不出來，就不出來，又封閉眾星。
who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
他獨自鋪張蒼天，步行在海浪之上。
who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;
他造北斗、參星、昴星，並南方的密宮；
who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;
他行大事，不可測度，行奇事，不可勝數。
who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number.
他從我旁邊經過，我卻不看見；他在我面前行走，我倒不知覺。
Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
他奪取，誰能阻擋？誰敢問他：你做甚麼？
Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
神必不收回他的怒氣；扶助
“God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.
既是這樣，我怎敢回答他，怎敢選擇言語與他辯論呢？
How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
我雖有義，也不回答他，只要向那審判我的懇求。
Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
我若呼籲，他應允我；我仍不信他真聽我的聲音。
If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
他用暴風折斷我，無故地加增我的損傷。
For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
我就是喘一口氣，他都不容，倒使我滿心苦惱。
he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
若論力量，他真有能力！若論審判，他說誰能將我傳來呢？
If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
我雖有義，自己的口要定我為有罪；我雖完全，我口必顯我為彎曲。
Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
我本完全，不顧自己；我厭惡我的性命。
I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
善惡無分，都是一樣；所以我說，完全人和惡人，他都滅絕。
It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
若忽然遭殺害之禍，他必戲笑無辜的人遇難。
When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
世界交在惡人手中；蒙蔽世界審判官的臉，若不是他，是誰呢？
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges — if it is not he, who then is it?
我的日子比跑信的更快，急速過去，不見福樂。
“My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.
我的日子過去如快船，如急落抓食的鷹。
They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.
我若說：我要忘記我的哀情，除去我的愁容，心中暢快；
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,’
我因愁苦而懼怕，知道你必不以我為無辜。
I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
我必被你定為有罪，我何必徒然勞苦呢？
I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
我若用雪水洗身，用鹼潔淨我的手，
If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
你還要扔我在坑裏，我的衣服都憎惡我。
yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
他本不像我是人，使我可以回答他，又使我們可以同聽審判。
For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
我們中間沒有聽訟的人可以向我們兩造按手。
There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.
願他把杖離開我，不使驚惶威嚇我。
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
我就說話，也不懼怕他，現在我卻不是那樣。
Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.