约伯记 Job 17

1 "My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, the grave is ready for me.
1 我的心灵消耗，我的日子灭尽。坟墓为我预备好了。

2 Surely mockers are with me, and my eye gazes on their provocation.
2 真有戏笑我的在我这里，我眼常见他们惹动我。

3 Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; who is there that will be my guarantor?
3 愿主拿凭据给我，自己为我作保。在你以外谁肯与我击掌呢。

4 For You have kept their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
4 因你使他们心不明理，所以你必不高举他们。

5 He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, the eyes of his children also will languish.
5 控告他的朋友，以朋友为可抢夺的，连他儿女的眼睛也要失明。

6 But He has made me a byword of the people, and I am one at whom men spit.
6 神使我作了民中的笑谈。他们也吐唾沫在我脸上。

7 My eye has also grown dim because of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
7 我的眼睛因忧愁昏花。我的百体好像影儿。

8 The upright will be appalled at this, and the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
8 正直人因此必惊奇。无辜的人，要兴起攻击不敬虔之辈。

9 Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, and he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
9 然而，义人要持守所行的道。手洁的人要力上加力。

10 But come again all of you now, for I do not find a wise man among you.
10 至于你们众人，可以再来辩论吧。你们中间，我找不着一个智慧人。

11 My days are past, my plans are torn apart, even the wishes of my heart.
11 我的日子已经过了。我的谋算，我心所想望的已经断绝。

12 They make night into day, saying, 'The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.
12 他们以黑夜为白昼，说，亮光近乎黑暗。

13 If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
13 我若盼望阴间为我的房屋，若下榻在黑暗中，

14 If I call to the pit, 'You are my father'; to the worm, 'my mother and my sister';
14 若对朽坏说，你是我的父；对虫说，你是我的母亲姊妹。

15 Where then is my hope? And who regards my hope?
15 这样，我的指望在哪里呢。我所指望的谁能看见呢。

16 Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?"
16 等到安息在尘土中，这指望必下到阴间的门闩那里了。