Job 17

1 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

1 “我的心灵破碎，我的年日将尽， 坟墓等候着我。

2 Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

2 无疑，嘲笑的人围着我， 我眼睁睁地看着他们挑衅。

3 Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

3 上帝啊，求你为我作保。 除你以外，谁肯做我的保人？

4 You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

4 你蒙蔽了他们的心智， 因此你必不让他们得胜。

5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

5 人为了分产业而控告朋友， 其子孙的眼睛要失明。

6 He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

6 上帝使我成了人们的笑柄， 他们在我脸上吐唾沫。

7 My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

7 哀伤使我眼目昏花， 我整个人骨瘦如柴。

8 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.

8 这使正直的人震惊， 使无辜的人起来讨伐不敬虔的人。

9 Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

9 义人坚守自己的道， 手洁的人更有力量。

10 But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

10 来吧，你们众人再来， 我在你们中间不会找到一个智者。

11 My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.

11 我的年日已尽， 我的计划破灭， 我的心愿落空。

12 They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

12 他们以黑夜为白昼， 说光明与黑暗相似。

13 If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

13 我若期望阴间作我的家园， 在黑暗之地铺设我的床榻，

14 and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

14 称坟墓为父亲， 称蛆虫为母亲、姊妹，

15 where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

15 那么，我的希望在哪里？ 谁能看到我的希望？

16 Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

16 我的希望会跟我下到阴间， 与我同归尘土吗？”