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Job 17
Latin original · 16 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss
← ch. 16ch. 18 → 📖 This chapter exists in 3 other originals —
side by side (Hebrew Old Testament, Septuagint, Ge'ez Bible)
17:1
Spiritus meus attenuabitur ; dies mei breviabuntur : et solum mihi superest sepulchrum.
“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
我的心靈消耗，我的日子滅盡； 墳墓為我預備好了。
17:2
Non peccavi, et in amaritudinibus moratur oculus meus.
Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
真有戲笑我的在我這裏， 我眼常見他們惹動我。
17:3
Libera me, Domine, et pone me juxta te, et cujusvis manus pugnet contra me.
“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
願主拿憑據給我，自己為我作保。 在你以外誰肯與我擊掌呢？
17:4
Cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina : propterea non exaltabuntur.
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
因你使他們心不明理， 所以你必不高舉他們。
17:5
Praedam pollicetur sociis, et oculi filiorum ejus deficient.
He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
控告他的朋友、以朋友為可搶奪的， 連他兒女的眼睛也要失明。
17:6
Posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi, et exemplum sum coram eis.
“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
上帝使我作了民中的笑談； 他們也吐唾沫在我臉上。
17:7
Caligavit ab indignatione oculus meus, et membra mea quasi in nihilum redacta sunt.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
我的眼睛因憂愁昏花； 我的百體好像影兒。
17:8
Stupebunt justi super hoc, et innocens contra hypocritam suscitabitur.
Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
正直人因此必驚奇； 無辜的人要興起攻擊不敬虔之輩。
17:9
Et tenebit justus viam suam, et mundis manibus addet fortitudinem.
Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
然而，義人要持守所行的道； 手潔的人要力上加力。
17:10
Igitur omnes vos convertimini, et venite, et non inveniam in vobis ullum sapientem.
But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
至於你們眾人，可以再來辯論吧！ 你們中間，我找不着一個智慧人。
17:11
Dies mei transierunt ; cogitationes meae dissipatae sunt, torquentes cor meum.
My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
我的日子已經過了； 我的謀算、我心所想望的已經斷絕。
17:12
Noctem verterunt in diem, et rursum post tenebras spero lucem.
They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
他們以黑夜為白晝， 說：亮光近乎黑暗。
17:13
Si sustinuero, infernus domus mea est, et in tenebris stravi lectulum meum.
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
我若盼望陰間為我的房屋， 若下榻在黑暗中，
17:14
Putredini dixi : Pater meus es ; Mater mea, et soror mea, vermibus.
if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
若對朽壞說：你是我的父； 對蟲說：你是我的母親姊妹；
17:15
Ubi est ergo nunc praestolatio mea ? et patientiam meam quis considerat ?
where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
這樣，我的指望在哪裏呢？ 我所指望的誰能看見呢？
17:16
In profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea : putasne saltem ibi erit requies mihi ?
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
等到安息在塵土中， 這指望必下到陰間的門閂那裏了。
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