Job 16
Christian Standard Bible
Job’s Reply to Eliphaz
16 Then Job answered:
2 I have heard many things like these.
You are all miserable comforters.(A)
3 Is there no end to your empty[a](B) words?
What provokes you that you continue testifying?
4 If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.
5 Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth,
and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.(C)
6 If I speak, my suffering is not relieved,
and if I hold back, does any of it leave me?
7 Surely he[b] has now exhausted me.
You have devastated my entire family.
8 You have shriveled me up[c]—it has become a witness;
my frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
9 His anger tears at me, and he harasses(D) me.
He gnashes his teeth at me.
My enemy pierces me with his eyes.
10 They open their mouths against me
and strike my cheeks with contempt;(E)
they join themselves together against me.
11 God hands me over to the unjust;[d]
he throws me to the wicked.
12 I was at ease, but he shattered me;
he seized me by the scruff of the neck
and smashed me to pieces.
He set me up as his target;(F)
13 his archers[e] surround me.
He pierces my kidneys without mercy
and pours my bile on the ground.
14 He breaks through my defenses again and again;[f]
he charges at me like a warrior.(G)
15 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;
I have buried my strength[g] in the dust.(H)
16 My face has grown red with weeping,
and darkness(I) covers my eyes,
17 although my hands are free from violence(J)
and my prayer is pure.
18 Earth, do not cover my blood;
may my cry for help find no resting place.(K)
19 Even now my witness is in heaven,
and my advocate is in the heights!(L)
20 My friends scoff at me
as I weep before God.
21 I wish that someone might argue for a man with God(M)
just as anyone[h] would for a friend.
22 For only a few years will pass
before I go the way of no return.
約伯記 16
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
約伯的回答
16 約伯回答說：
2 「這些話，我聽過很多，
你們安慰人，反讓人愁煩。
3 你們的空談無休無止嗎？
是什麼惹你們說個不停？
4 倘若你我易地而處，
我也能說你們那樣的話，
滔滔不絕地攻擊你們，
向你們搖頭。
5 我會對你們講鼓勵的話，
用勸慰之言減輕你們的痛苦。
6 「我若申辯，痛苦不減；
我若緘默，痛苦猶在。
7 上帝啊，你使我精疲力竭，
家破人亡，
8 你榨乾了我，
使我骨瘦如柴，
這成了我的罪證。
9 上帝在憤怒中撕裂我，迫害我，
向我咬牙切齒；
仇敵惡狠狠地盯著我。
10 他們嘲笑我，
輕蔑地摑我的臉，
聯合起來攻擊我。
11 上帝把我交給罪人，
把我扔到惡人手中。
12 我本來平順，祂擊垮了我，
祂抓住我的頸項將我摔碎，
把我當祂的箭靶。
13 祂的弓箭手四面圍住我，
祂毫不留情地刺透我的腎臟，
使我肝膽塗地。
14 祂一次次地擊傷我，
像勇士一樣撲向我。
15 我縫製麻衣，披在身上，
把我的榮耀埋在塵土中。
16 我哭得臉頰紅腫，
眼皮發黑。
17 但我未行殘暴之事，
我的禱告純真。
18 「大地啊！不要掩蓋我的血，
不要攔阻我的呼求。
19 此時，我的見證人在天上，
我的辯護者在高天上。
20 我的朋友譏笑我，
我在上帝面前流淚。
21 但願人與上帝之間有仲裁者，
如同人與人之間。
22 因為我的年日不多，
我快要踏上不歸路。
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