約伯記 30 – CCBT & NIVUK

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)

約伯記 30:1-31

哀歎今日的痛苦

1「但如今,比我年少的人竟嘲笑我,

他們的父親曾被我鄙視,

連我的牧羊犬都不如。

2他們精力衰竭,

對我有何益處?

3他們貧窮饑餓,瘦弱不堪,

夜間在乾旱荒涼之地啃食。

4他們在草叢中拔鹹草充饑,

以羅騰樹根為食。

5他們被趕離人群,

像賊一樣被喝斥。

6他們只好住在荒谷,

在地洞和岩穴棲身;

7在雜草間嚎叫如獸,

在樹叢中蜷縮一團。

8他們是愚昧無名之輩,

被人用鞭子趕出境外。

9「如今,他們竟唱歌諷刺我,

我成了他們的笑柄。

10他們厭惡我,不願靠近我,

任意朝我臉上吐唾沫。

11因為上帝苦待我,使我毫無力量,

他們才在我面前肆無忌憚。

12這些無賴從右邊攻擊我,

迫使我逃亡,

他們展開攻勢要毀滅我。

13他們截斷我的路,

想方設法害我,無人相助。

14他們衝破防線,

從廢墟中向我襲來。

15恐懼籠罩著我,

我的尊榮隨風而去,

我的榮華如雲消散。

16「如今我的生命將盡,

痛苦的日子抓住我。

17夜間我的骨頭刺痛,

如被啃噬,無休無止。

18上帝猛力抓住我的衣服,

緊緊地揪住我的衣領。

19祂把我扔進淤泥,

使我如塵埃灰燼。

20「上帝啊!我向你呼求,你不回應;

我站起來,你也不理睬。

21你變得對我殘酷無情,

用你大能的手迫害我,

22把我提到風中,讓我被風吹走,

被暴風拋來拋去。

23我知道你要帶我去死亡之地,

那是你為眾生所定的歸宿。

24「誠然,不幸的人在困境中呼救,

無人會伸手加害他。

25難道我不曾為受苦的人哭泣,

我的心不曾為窮困者悲傷嗎?

26我盼望幸福,來的卻是災禍;

我期待光明,來的卻是黑暗。

27我心裡一直煩亂不安,

苦難的日子迎面襲來。

28我皮膚發黑,不是因為日曬,

我在會眾中站起來呼救。

29我成了豺狼的兄弟,

駝鳥的夥伴。

30我的皮膚發黑、脫落,

我的骨頭如被烤焦。

31我的琴唱出哀樂,

我的簫奏出悲鳴。

New International Version – UK

Job 30:1-31

1‘But now they mock me,

men younger than I,

whose fathers I would have disdained

to put with my sheep dogs.

2Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,

since their vigour had gone from them?

3Haggard from want and hunger,

they roamed30:3 Or gnawed the parched land

in desolate wastelands at night.

4In the brush they gathered salt herbs,

and their food30:4 Or fuel was the root of the broom bush.

5They were banished from human society,

shouted at as if they were thieves.

6They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,

among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

7They brayed among the bushes

and huddled in the undergrowth.

8A base and nameless brood,

they were driven out of the land.

9‘And now those young men mock me in song;

I have become a byword among them.

10They detest me and keep their distance;

they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

11Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me,

they throw off restraint in my presence.

12On my right the tribe30:12 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. attacks;

they lay snares for my feet,

they build their siege ramps against me.

13They break up my road;

they succeed in destroying me.

“No-one can help him,” they say.

14They advance as through a gaping breach;

amid the ruins they come rolling in.

15Terrors overwhelm me;

my dignity is driven away as by the wind,

my safety vanishes like a cloud.

16‘And now my life ebbs away;

days of suffering grip me.

17Night pierces my bones;

my gnawing pains never rest.

18In his great power God becomes like clothing to me30:18 Hebrew; Septuagint power he grasps my clothing;

he binds me like the neck of my garment.

19He throws me into the mud,

and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

20‘I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer;

I stand up, but you merely look at me.

21You turn on me ruthlessly;

with the might of your hand you attack me.

22You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;

you toss me about in the storm.

23I know you will bring me down to death,

to the place appointed for all the living.

24‘Surely no-one lays a hand on a broken man

when he cries for help in his distress.

25Have I not wept for those in trouble?

Has not my soul grieved for the poor?

26Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;

when I looked for light, then came darkness.

27The churning inside me never stops;

days of suffering confront me.

28I go about blackened, but not by the sun;

I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

29I have become a brother of jackals,

a companion of owls.

30My skin grows black and peels;

my body burns with fever.

31My lyre is tuned to mourning,

and my pipe to the sound of wailing.