Job 16 – NIV & CCBT

New International Version

Job 16:1-22

Job

1Then Job replied:

2“I have heard many things like these;

you are miserable comforters, all of you!

3Will your long-winded speeches never end?

What ails you that you keep on arguing?

4I also could speak like you,

if you were in my place;

I could make fine speeches against you

and shake my head at you.

5But my mouth would encourage you;

comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

6“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved;

and if I refrain, it does not go away.

7Surely, God, you have worn me out;

you have devastated my entire household.

8You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness;

my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

9God assails me and tears me in his anger

and gnashes his teeth at me;

my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.

10People open their mouths to jeer at me;

they strike my cheek in scorn

and unite together against me.

11God has turned me over to the ungodly

and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.

12All was well with me, but he shattered me;

he seized me by the neck and crushed me.

He has made me his target;

13his archers surround me.

Without pity, he pierces my kidneys

and spills my gall on the ground.

14Again and again he bursts upon me;

he rushes at me like a warrior.

15“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin

and buried my brow in the dust.

16My face is red with weeping,

dark shadows ring my eyes;

17yet my hands have been free of violence

and my prayer is pure.

18“Earth, do not cover my blood;

may my cry never be laid to rest!

19Even now my witness is in heaven;

my advocate is on high.

20My intercessor is my friend16:20 Or My friends treat me with scorn

as my eyes pour out tears to God;

21on behalf of a man he pleads with God

as one pleads for a friend.

22“Only a few years will pass

before I take the path of no return.

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)

約伯記 16:1-22

約伯的回答

1約伯回答說:

2「這些話,我聽過很多,

你們安慰人,反讓人愁煩。

3你們的空談無休無止嗎?

是什麼惹你們說個不停?

4倘若你我易地而處,

我也能說你們那樣的話,

滔滔不絕地攻擊你們,

向你們搖頭。

5我會對你們講鼓勵的話,

用勸慰之言減輕你們的痛苦。

6「我若申辯,痛苦不減;

我若緘默,痛苦猶在。

7上帝啊,你使我精疲力竭,

家破人亡,

8你榨乾了我,

使我骨瘦如柴,

這成了我的罪證。

9上帝在憤怒中撕裂我,迫害我,

向我咬牙切齒;

仇敵惡狠狠地盯著我。

10他們嘲笑我,

輕蔑地摑我的臉,

聯合起來攻擊我。

11上帝把我交給罪人,

把我扔到惡人手中。

12我本來平順,祂擊垮了我,

祂抓住我的頸項將我摔碎,

把我當祂的箭靶。

13祂的弓箭手四面圍住我,

祂毫不留情地刺透我的腎臟,

使我肝膽塗地。

14祂一次次地擊傷我,

像勇士一樣撲向我。

15我縫製麻衣,披在身上,

把我的榮耀埋在塵土中。

16我哭得臉頰紅腫,

眼皮發黑。

17但我未行殘暴之事,

我的禱告純真。

18「大地啊!不要掩蓋我的血,

不要攔阻我的呼求。

19此時,我的見證人在天上,

我的辯護者在高天上。

20我的朋友譏笑我,

我在上帝面前流淚。

21但願人與上帝之間有仲裁者,

如同人與人之間。

22因為我的年日不多,

我快要踏上不歸路。