Job 16 – NIV & CCB

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 (Simplified)

约伯记 16:1-22

约伯的回答

1约伯回答说:

2“这些话,我听过很多,

你们安慰人,反让人愁烦。

3你们的空谈无休无止吗?

是什么惹你们说个不停?

4倘若你我易地而处,

我也能说你们那样的话,

滔滔不绝地攻击你们,

向你们摇头。

5我会对你们讲鼓励的话,

用劝慰之言减轻你们的痛苦。

6“我若申辩,痛苦不减;

我若缄默,痛苦犹在。

7上帝啊,你使我精疲力竭,

家破人亡,

8你榨干了我,

使我骨瘦如柴,

这成了我的罪证。

9上帝在愤怒中撕裂我,迫害我,

向我咬牙切齿;

仇敌恶狠狠地盯着我。

10他们嘲笑我,

轻蔑地掴我的脸,

联合起来攻击我。

11上帝把我交给罪人,

把我扔到恶人手中。

12我本来平顺,祂击垮了我,

祂抓住我的颈项将我摔碎,

把我当祂的箭靶。

13祂的弓箭手四面围住我,

祂毫不留情地刺透我的肾脏,

使我肝胆涂地。

14祂一次次地击伤我,

像勇士一样扑向我。

15我缝制麻衣,披在身上,

把我的荣耀埋在尘土中。

16我哭得脸颊红肿,

眼皮发黑。

17但我未行残暴之事,

我的祷告纯真。

18“大地啊!不要掩盖我的血,

不要拦阻我的呼求。

19此时,我的见证人在天上,

我的辩护者在高天上。

20我的朋友讥笑我,

我在上帝面前流泪。

21但愿人与上帝之间有仲裁者,

如同人与人之间。

22因为我的年日不多,

我快要踏上不归路。