Job 19

1 Then Job answered:

1 约伯回答说：

2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

2 你们搅扰我的心， 用言语压碎我要到几时呢？

3 Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.

3 你们这十次羞辱我； 你们苦待我也不以为耻。

4 Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

4 果真我有错， 这错乃是在我。

5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

5 你们果然要向我夸大， 以我的羞辱为证指责我，

6 then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

6 就该知道是 神倾覆我， 用网罗围绕我。

7 Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

7 我因委曲呼叫，却不蒙应允； 我呼求，却不得公断。

8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

8 神用篱笆拦住我的道路，使我不得经过； 又使我的路径黑暗。

9 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

9 他剥去我的荣光， 摘去我头上的冠冕。

10 He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

10 他在四围攻击我，我便归于死亡， 将我的指望如树拔出来。

11 His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

11 他的忿怒向我发作， 以我为敌人。

12 His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

12 他的军旅一齐上来， 修筑战路攻击我， 在我帐棚的四围安营。

13 He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

13 他把我的弟兄隔在远处， 使我所认识的全然与我生疏。

14 My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

14 我的亲戚与我断绝； 我的密友都忘记我。

15 My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

15 在我家寄居的， 和我的使女都以我为外人； 我在他们眼中看为外邦人。

16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.

16 我呼唤仆人， 虽用口求他，他还是不回答。

17 My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

17 我口的气味，我妻子厌恶； 我的恳求，我同胞也憎嫌。

18 Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

18 连小孩子也藐视我； 我若起来，他们都嘲笑我。

19 All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

19 我的密友都憎恶我； 我平日所爱的人向我翻脸。

20 My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

20 我的皮肉紧贴骨头； 我只剩牙皮逃脱了。

21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

21 我朋友啊，可怜我！可怜我！ 因为 神的手攻击我。

22 Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

22 你们为什么仿佛 神逼迫我， 吃我的肉还以为不足呢？

23 I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

23 惟愿我的言语现在写上， 都记录在书上；

24 by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

24 用铁笔镌刻， 用铅灌在磐石上，直存到永远。

25 But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.

25 我知道我的救赎主活着， 末了必站立在地上。

26 Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

26 我这皮肉灭绝之后， 我必在肉体之外得见 神。

27 I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

27 我自己要见他， 亲眼要看他，并不像外人。 我的心肠在我里面消灭了！

28 If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’

28 你们若说：我们逼迫他要何等地重呢？ 惹事的根乃在乎他；

29 then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”

29 你们就当惧怕刀剑； 因为忿怒惹动刀剑的刑罚， 使你们知道有报应 。