约伯记 Job 16
1 Then Job answered,
1 约伯回答说，
2 "I have heard many such things; sorry comforters are you all.
2 这样的话我听了许多。你们安慰人，反叫人愁烦。
3 Is there no end to windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
3 虚空的言语有穷尽吗。有什么话惹动你回答呢。
4 I too could speak like you, if I were in your place. I could compose words against you and shake my head at you.
4 我也能说你们那样的话。你们若处在我的境遇，我也会联络言语攻击你们，又能向你们摇头。
5 I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.
5 但我必用口坚固你们，用嘴消解你们的忧愁。
6 "If I speak, my pain is not lessened, and if I hold back, what has left me?
6 我虽说话，忧愁仍不得消解。我虽停住不说，忧愁就离开我吗。
7 But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company.
7 但现在神使我困倦，使亲友远离我。
8 You have shriveled me up, it has become a witness; and my leanness rises up against me, it testifies to my face.
8 又抓住我，作见证攻击我。我身体的枯瘦，也当面见证我的不是。
9 His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; my adversary glares at me.
9 主发怒撕裂我，逼迫我，向我切齿。我的敌人怒目看我。
10 They have gaped at me with their mouth, they have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; they have massed together against me.
10 他们向我开口，打我的脸羞辱我，聚会攻击我。
11 God hands me over to ruffians and tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
11 神把我交给不敬虔的人，把我扔到恶人的手中。
12 I was at ease, but He shattered me, and He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His target.
12 我素来安逸，他折断我，掐住我的颈项，把我摔碎。又立我为他的箭靶子。
13 His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground.
13 他的弓箭手四面围绕我。他破裂我的肺腑，并不留情，把我的胆倾倒在地上，
14 He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior.
14 将我破裂又破裂，如同勇士向我直闯。
15 I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn in the dust.
15 我缝麻布在我皮肤上，把我的角放在尘土中。
16 My face is flushed from weeping, and deep darkness is on my eyelids,
16 我的脸因哭泣发紫，在我的眼皮上有死荫。
17 Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
17 我的手中却无强暴。我的祈祷也是清洁。
18 "O earth, do not cover my blood, and let there be no resting place for my cry.
18 地啊，不要遮盖我的血。不要阻挡我的哀求。
19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
19 现今，在天有我的见证，在上有我的中保。
20 My friends are my scoffers; my eye weeps to God.
20 我的朋友讥诮我，我却向神眼泪汪汪。
21 O that a man might plead with God as a man with his neighbor!
21 愿人得与神辩白，如同人与朋友辩白一样。
22 For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.
22 因为再过几年，我必走那往而不返之路。