Job 16:1 約伯回答說、
Job 16:1 Then Job answered and said,
Job 16:2 這樣的話我聽了許多.你們安慰人、反叫人愁煩。
Job 16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Job 16:3 虛空的言語有窮盡麼.有甚麼話惹動你回答呢。
Job 16:3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Job 16:4 我也能說你們那樣的話.你們若處在我的境遇、我也會聯絡言語攻擊你們、又能向你們搖頭。
Job 16:4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Job 16:5 但我必用口堅固你們、用嘴消解你們的憂愁。
Job 16:5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
Job 16:6 我雖說話、憂愁仍不得消解.我雖停住不說、憂愁就離開我麼。
Job 16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Job 16:7 但現在 神使我困倦.使親友遠離我。
Job 16:7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Job 16:8 又抓住我、作見證攻擊我.我身體的枯瘦也當面見證我的不是。
Job 16:8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
Job 16:9 主發怒撕裂我、逼迫我、向我切齒.我的敵人怒目看我。
Job 16:9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
Job 16:10 他們向我開口、打我的臉羞辱我、聚會攻擊我。
Job 16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Job 16:11 神把我交給不敬虔的人、把我扔到惡人的手中。
Job 16:11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12 我素來安逸、他折斷我、掐住我的頸項、把我摔碎、又立我為他的箭靶子。
Job 16:12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
Job 16:13 他的弓箭手四面圍繞我.他破裂我的肺腑、並不留情.把我的膽傾倒在地上.
Job 16:13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Job 16:14 將我破裂又破裂.如同勇士向我直闖。
Job 16:14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
Job 16:15 我縫麻布在我皮膚上、把我的角放在塵土中。
Job 16:15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
Job 16:16 我的臉、因哭泣發紫、在我的眼皮上有死蔭。
Job 16:16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job 16:17 我的手中、卻無強暴、我的祈禱、也是清潔。
Job 16:17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Job 16:18 地阿、不要遮蓋我的血、不要阻擋我的哀求。
Job 16:18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
Job 16:19 現今、在天有我的見證、在上有我的中保。
Job 16:19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
Job 16:20 我的朋友譏誚我.我卻向 神眼淚汪汪.
Job 16:20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Job 16:21 願人得與 神辯白、如同人與朋友辯白一樣。
Job 16:21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Job 16:22 因為再過幾年、我必走那往而不返之路。
Job 16:22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.