约伯记 第 30 章
1但如今，比我年少的人戏笑我； 其人之父我曾藐视， 不肯安在看守我羊群的狗中。
1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
2他们壮年的气力既已衰败， 其手之力与我何益呢？
2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
3他们因穷乏饥饿，身体枯瘦， 在荒废凄凉的幽暗中啃干燥之地，
3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
5他们从人中被赶出； 人追喊他们如贼一般，
5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
6以致他们住在荒谷之间， 在地洞和岩穴中；
6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
8这都是愚顽下贱人的儿女； 他们被鞭打，赶出境外。
8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
10他们厌恶我，躲在旁边站着， 不住地吐唾沫在我脸上。
10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11松开他们的绳索苦待我， 在我面前脱去辔头。
11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
12这等下流人在我右边起来， 推开我的脚，筑成战路来攻击我。
12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
14他们来如同闯进大破口， 在毁坏之间滚在我身上。
14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
15惊恐临到我， 驱逐我的尊荣如风； 我的福禄如云过去。
15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
16现在我心极其悲伤； 困苦的日子将我抓住。
16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17夜间，我里面的骨头刺我， 疼痛不止，好像啃我。
17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18因神的大力，我的外衣污秽不堪， 又如里衣的领子将我缠住。
18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
20主啊，我呼求你，你不应允我； 我站起来，你就定睛看我。
20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
21你向我变心，待我残忍， 又用大能追逼我，
21Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
22把我提在风中，使我驾风而行， 又使我消灭在烈风中。
22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
23我知道要使我临到死地， 到那为众生所定的阴宅。
23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
24然而，人仆倒岂不伸手？ 遇灾难岂不求救呢？
24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25人遭难，我岂不为他哭泣呢？ 人穷乏，我岂不为他忧愁呢？
25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
26我仰望得好处，灾祸就到了； 我等待光明，黑暗便来了。
26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.