Job 16
Common English Bible
Job’s response
16 Then Job answered:
2 I’ve heard many things like these.
All of you are sorry comforters.
3 Will windy talk ever cease;
what bothers you that you must argue?
4 In your situation I could speak like you;
I could put words together to oppose you,
shake my head over you.
5 I could heap up words, strengthen you with my speech;
my trembling lips would be held in check.
6 If I speak, my pain is not eased;
if I hold back, what have I lost?
The innocent are God’s targets
7 Now God has surely worn me out.
You have destroyed my entire group,
8 seized me, which became grounds for an accusation.[a]
My leanness rises to bear witness against me.
9 His anger tears me and afflicts me;
he slashes at me with his teeth.
My enemy pierces me with his eyes.
10 They open their mouths at me
and strike my cheek in a taunt;
they gang up on me.
11 God delivers me to a criminal
and forces me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at rest, but he shattered me,
seized me by the back of my neck,
dashed me into pieces;
he raised me up for his target.
13 His archers surround me;
he cuts my kidneys open without pity and doesn’t care,
pours my gall on the ground,
14 bursts me open over and over,
runs against me like a strong man.
15 I’ve sewed rough cloth over my skin
and buried my dignity in the dust.
16 My face is red from crying,
and dark gloom hangs on my eyelids.
17 But there is no violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
Lingering hope
18 Earth, don’t cover my blood;
let my outcry never cease.
19 Surely now my witness stands in heaven;
my advocate is on high;
20 my go-between, my friend.[b]
While my eyes drip tears to God,
21 let him plead with God for a human being,
like a person pleads for a friend.
22 A number of years will surely pass,
and then I’ll walk a path that I won’t return.
约伯记 16
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
約伯反嘲安慰人的反叫人愁煩
16 約伯回答說：
2 “像這樣的話，我聽了很多；
你們都是叫人愁煩的安慰者。
3 虛空的言語，有窮盡嗎？
或有甚麼惹你答個不休的呢？
4 你們若處在我的景況，
我也能像你們那樣說話，
我也能砌辭攻擊你們，
並且能向你們搖頭。
5 我能用口鼓勵你們，
我嘴唇的安慰，能緩和你們的痛苦。
力陳他的痛苦
6 我若說話，痛苦仍不消解，
我若閉口不說，痛苦也不離開我。
7 現在 神使我困倦，
‘你蹂躪了我的全家，
8 又把我捆綁起來。’這就作為證據；
我身體的枯瘦也當面作證反對我。
9 他的怒氣撕裂我，攻擊我；
他向我咬牙切齒，
我的敵人以銳利的眼光看著我。
10 他們向我大大張嘴，
以蔑視的態度打我的臉頰，
聯合一起攻擊我。
11 神把我交給不義的人，
把我丟在惡人的手中。
12 我本來安逸，他卻把我壓碎；
掐著我的頸項，把我摔碎；
又把我當作他的箭靶。
13 他的弓箭手四面包圍我，
他剖開我的腰子，全不顧惜，
把我的膽傾倒在地上。
14 他把我破傷，在破口上又加破傷，
如勇士一般向我直衝。
15 我把麻布縫在我的皮膚上，
把我的角插入塵土中。
16 我的臉因哭泣而發紅，
在我的眼皮上滿是黑影。
17 然而在我的手中沒有強暴，
我的禱告也是清潔的。
向 神哭訴
18 地啊，不要遮蓋我的血；
不要讓我的哀求有停留的地方。
19 現今，在天上有我的見證，
在高天之上，有我的證人。
20 譏笑我的，就是我的朋友，
我的眼向 神流淚。
21 但願人可以為人與 神分辯，
正如世人為朋友辯白一樣。
22 因為我的年數將盡，
我快要走上那條一去不返的路。”
Job 16
New King James Version
Job Reproaches His Pitiless Friends
16 Then Job answered and said:
2 “I have heard many such things;
(A)Miserable[a] comforters are you all!
3 Shall [b]words of wind have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
4 I also could speak as you do,
If your soul were in my soul’s place.
I could heap up words against you,
And (B)shake my head at you;
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth,
And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.
6 “Though I speak, my grief is not relieved;
And if I remain silent, how am I eased?
7 But now He has (C)worn me out;
You (D)have made desolate all my company.
8 You have shriveled me up,
And it is a (E)witness against me;
My leanness rises up against me
And bears witness to my face.
9 (F)He tears me in His wrath, and hates me;
He gnashes at me with His teeth;
(G)My adversary sharpens His gaze on me.
10 They (H)gape at me with their mouth,
They (I)strike me reproachfully on the cheek,
They gather together against me.
11 God (J)has delivered me to the ungodly,
And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, but He has (K)shattered me;
He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces;
He has (L)set me up for His target,
13 His archers surround me.
He pierces my [c]heart and does not pity;
He pours out my gall on the ground.
14 He breaks me with wound upon wound;
He runs at me like a [d]warrior.
15 “I have sewn sackcloth over my skin,
And (M)laid my [e]head in the dust.
16 My face is [f]flushed from weeping,
And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 Although no violence is in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.
18 “O earth, do not cover my blood,
And (N)let my cry have no resting place!
19 Surely even now (O)my witness is in heaven,
And my evidence is on high.
20 My friends scorn me;
My eyes pour out tears to God.
21 (P)Oh, that one might plead for a man with God,
As a man pleads for his [g]neighbor!
22 For when a few years are finished,
I shall (Q)go the way of no return.
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