¹责友妄证　神为义

¹Lo, all — hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.

²你们所知道的我也知道，我并非不及你们。

²According to your knowledge I have known — also I. I am not fallen more than you.

³但我要对全能者说话，我愿与　神辩论。

³Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.

⁴你们都是捏造谎言的，都是无用的医生。

⁴And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought — all of you,

⁵但愿你们完全不作声，这样才算为你们的智慧。

⁵O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

⁶请你们听我的辩论，留心听我嘴唇的申诉。

⁶Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,

⁷你们要为　神说不义的言语吗？你们要为他说诡诈的话吗？

⁷For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?

⁸你们要徇　神的情面吗？要为　神争辩吗？

⁸His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?

⁹他把你们查出来，这是好吗？人怎样哄骗人，你们也怎样哄骗　神吗？

⁹Is [it] good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?

¹⁰你们若暗中徇情面，他必然责备你们。

¹⁰He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.

¹¹他的尊严不是叫你们惧怕吗？他的惊吓不是临到你们吗？

¹¹Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?

¹²你们背诵的格言都是炉灰的格言，你们的辩护都是泥土的辩护。

¹²Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

¹³表白自己无罪你们要静默，离开我，好让我说话，然后不论什么事也好，让它临到我吧。

¹³Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?

¹⁴我已把我的肉挂在自己的牙上，把我的命放在自己的手中。

¹⁴Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?

¹⁵他必杀我，我没有指望了，我必在他面前辩明我所行的；

¹⁵Lo, He doth slay me — I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.

¹⁶这要成为我的拯救，因为不敬虔的人不能到他面前来。

¹⁶Also — He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.

¹⁷你们当细听我的言语，让我的宣言进入你们的耳中。

¹⁷Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.

¹⁸现在我已呈上我的案件，我知道我自己得算为义，

¹⁸Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.

¹⁹有谁与我相争呢？若有，我就默然不言，气绝而亡。

¹⁹Who [is] he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.

²⁰约伯质问　神只要不对我行两件事，我就不躲开你的面，

²⁰Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.

²¹就是把你的手缩回，远离我身，又不使你的惊惧威吓我。

²¹Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.

²²这样，你一呼叫，我就回答，或是让我说话，你回答我。

²²And call Thou, and I — I answer, Or — I speak, and answer Thou me.

²³我的罪孽与罪过有多少呢？求你让我知道我的过犯与罪过。

²³How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.

²⁴你为什么掩面，把我当作你的仇敌呢？

²⁴Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

²⁵你要使被风吹动的树叶战抖吗？你要追赶枯干了的碎秸吗？

²⁵A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?

²⁶你记录判词攻击我，又使我承当我幼年的罪孽；

²⁶For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:

²⁷你把我的两脚上了木狗，又鉴察我一切所行的，为我的脚掌定界限。

²⁷And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,

²⁸我的生命像破灭腐朽之物，又像虫蛀的衣服。”

²⁸And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.