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約伯記-Job 第 30 章

30:1	但如今比我年少的人戲笑我；其人之父，我曾藐視，不肯安在看守我羊群的狗中。 But now those who are younger than I Hold me in derision, Those whose fathers I disdained To put with the dogs of my flock.
30:2	他們壯年的力氣既已衰敗，其手之力與我何益呢？ Indeed, what good is the strength of their hands to me? Their vigor has perished from them.
30:3	他們因窮乏饑餓，身體枯瘦，在荒廢淒涼的幽暗中，啃食於幹燥之地； Withered up through want and hunger, They gnaw at the dry ground, A gloom of waste and desolation.
30:4	在草叢之中采鹹草，羅騰的根為他們的食物。 They pick the mallow upon the bushes, And the roots of the broom shrub are their food.
30:5	他們從人群中被趕出，人追喊他們如追賊一般； They are driven from the company of men; Men cry after them as after a thief;
30:6	以致他們必須住在極凶險的峽穀之間，在地洞和岩穴之中。 So that they must dwell in the most dreadful ravines, In caves of the earth and in the rocks.
30:7	他們在草叢中叫喚，在荊棘下聚集。 Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they huddle.
30:8	這都是愚頑下賤人的兒女；他們被鞭打，趕出境外。 Sons of fools, indeed sons of nameless men, They have been stricken from the land.
30:9	現在我竟成了他們的歌曲，成了他們的笑談。 And now I have become their song, And I am a byword to them.
30:10	他們厭惡我，遠遠的離開我；見了麵就任意吐唾沫在我臉上。 They abhor me; they stand aloof from me; And they do not withhold their spit from my face.
30:11	神鬆開繩索苦待我，所以他們在我麵前放肆。 For He has loosened my cord and afflicted me; Therefore they have cast off restraint in my presence.
30:12	有下流之輩在我右邊起來，推開我的腳，築起毀壞的路攻擊我。 At my right hand a brood rises up; They send my feet running And cast up against me their ways of destruction.
30:13	他們毀壞我的道路，加增我的災難，對他們卻無助益。 They break up my path; They promote my calamity, Though there is no profit to them.
30:14	他們來如同闖進大破口；在廢墟中，輥輾而來。 As through a wide breach they come in; Amid the ruin they roll on.
30:15	驚恐攻擊我；我的尊榮被趕逐，如同被風吹散，我的興隆如雲過去。 Terrors are turned upon me; My honor is pursued as by a wind, And my prosperity passes away like a cloud.
30:16	現在我裏麵的魂傾倒出來，極其悲傷；困苦的日子將我抓住。 And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold of me.
30:17	黑夜將我的骨頭刺透，啃我的疼痛毫不止息。 The night rends my bones from me, And my gnawing pains do not rest.
30:18	因神的大力，我的外衣扭折變形，如同裏衣的領子將我纏住。 With great force my garments are distorted; It binds me like the collar of my coat.
30:19	神把我扔在淤泥中，我就像塵土和爐灰一般。 He has cast me into the mire, And I am like dust and ashes.
30:20	主阿，我呼求你，你不應允我；我站起來，你就定睛看我。 I cry unto You, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You stare at me.
30:21	你變成以殘忍待我，用你手的大能追逼我。 You have turned to become cruel to me; With the might of Your hand You pursue me.
30:22	你把我提在風中，使我駕風而行；又使我消散在風暴之中。 You lift me up into the wind; You make me ride on it; And You dissolve me in the storm.
30:23	我知道你要使我歸到死地，到那為眾生所定的陰宅。 For I know that You will bring me into death, And to the house appointed for all living.
30:24	然而人仆倒，豈不伸手；遇災難，豈不呼救呢？ Nevertheless does not a man put forth his hand when he falls, Or because of his disaster therefore cry out?
30:25	日子艱難的，我豈不為他哭泣？窮乏的，我魂豈不為他憂愁？ Did I not weep for him who had hard days? Was my soul not grieved for the needy?
30:26	我期望得福樂，災禍就到了；我等待光明，黑暗便來了。 When I expected good, evil came; And when I waited for light, darkness came.
30:27	我的心腸擾亂不安，困苦的日子迎我而來。 My inward parts are in turmoil and are not still; Days of affliction have drawn near to me.
30:28	我哀哭而行，黯無日光；我在會中站起來呼救。 I go about in sunless mourning. I rise up in the congregation; I cry for help.
30:29	我與野狗為弟兄，與鴕鳥為同伴。 I am a brother to jackals And a companion to ostriches.
30:30	我的皮膚黑而脫落；我的骨頭因熱燒焦。 My skin is black and falling from me, And my bones burn with heat.
30:31	所以我的琴音變為悲音，我的簫聲變為哭聲。 My lyre has become mourning, And my pipe, the voice of those who weep.

約伯記-Job 第 30 章