Job 17

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

1 我的心靈消耗，我的日子滅盡； 墳墓為我預備好了。

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

2 真有戲笑我的在我這裏， 我眼常見他們惹動我。

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

3 願主拿憑據給我，自己為我作保。 在你以外誰肯與我擊掌呢？

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

4 因你使他們心不明理， 所以你必不高舉他們。

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

5 控告他的朋友、以朋友為可搶奪的， 連他兒女的眼睛也要失明。

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

6 上帝使我作了民中的笑談； 他們也吐唾沫在我臉上。

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

7 我的眼睛因憂愁昏花； 我的百體好像影兒。

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

8 正直人因此必驚奇； 無辜的人要興起攻擊不敬虔之輩。

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

9 然而，義人要持守所行的道； 手潔的人要力上加力。

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

10 至於你們眾人，可以再來辯論吧！ 你們中間，我找不着一個智慧人。

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

11 我的日子已經過了； 我的謀算、我心所想望的已經斷絕。

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

12 他們以黑夜為白晝， 說：亮光近乎黑暗。

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

13 我若盼望陰間為我的房屋， 若下榻在黑暗中，

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

14 若對朽壞說：你是我的父； 對蟲說：你是我的母親姊妹；

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

15 這樣，我的指望在哪裏呢？ 我所指望的誰能看見呢？

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

16 等到安息在塵土中， 這指望必下到陰間的門閂那裏了。