約伯記

第 24 章

1. 全能者既定期罰惡、為何不使認識他的人看見那日子呢。
"Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?
2. 有人挪移地界、搶奪群畜而牧養。
Men move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
3. 他們拉去孤兒的驢、強取寡婦的牛為當頭。
They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge.
4. 他們使窮人離開正道.世上的貧民盡都隱藏。
They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5. 這些貧窮人、如同野驢出到曠野、殷勤尋找食物.他們靠著野地給兒女餬口.
Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
6. 收割別人田間的禾稼.摘取惡人餘剩的葡萄.
They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
7. 終夜赤身無衣、天氣寒冷毫無遮蓋.
Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
8. 在山上被大雨淋濕.因沒有避身之處就挨近磐石。
They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
9. 又有人從母懷中搶奪孤兒、強取窮人的衣服為當頭.
The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
10. 使人赤身無衣、到處流行.且因飢餓扛抬禾捆。
Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11. 在那些人的圍牆內造油、醡酒、自己還口渴。
They crush olives among the terraces; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12. 在多民的城內有人唉哼、受傷的人哀號. 神卻不理會那惡人的愚妄。
The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13. 又有人背棄光明、不認識光明的道、不住在光明的路上。
"There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
14. 殺人的黎明起來、殺害困苦窮乏人.夜間又作盜賊。
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up and kills the poor and needy; in the night he steals forth like a thief.
15. 姦夫等候黃昏、說、必無眼能見我、就把臉蒙蔽。
The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, 'No eye will see me,' and he keeps his face concealed.
16. 盜賊黑夜挖窟窿、白日躲藏、並不認識光明。
In the dark, men break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.
17. 他們看早晨如幽暗.因為他們曉得幽暗的驚駭。
For all of them, deep darkness is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
18. 這些惡人猶如浮萍快快飄去.他們所得的分在世上被咒詛.他們不得再走葡萄園的路。
"Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.
19. 乾旱炎熱消沒雪水.陰間也如此消沒犯罪之輩。
As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
20. 懷他的母〔原文作胎〕要忘記他.蟲子要喫他、覺得甘甜.他不再被人記念.不義的人必如樹折斷。
The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; evil men are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
21. 他惡待〔或作他吞滅〕不懷孕不生養的婦人、不善待寡婦。
They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow show no kindness.
22. 然而 神用能力保全有勢力的人.那性命難保的人仍然興起。
But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
23.  神使他們安穩、他們就有所倚靠. 神的眼目也看顧他們的道路。
He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.
24. 他們被高舉不過片時、就沒有了.他們降為卑、被除滅、與眾人一樣.又如穀穗被割。
For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
25. 若不是這樣、誰能證實我是說謊的、將我的言語駁為虛空呢。
"If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?"