1. Then Job replied:
2. "Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you give me.
3. Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
4. "Is my complaint directed to man? Why should I not be impatient?
5. Look at me and be astonished; clap your hand over your mouth.
6. When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.
7. Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
8. They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes.
9. Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not upon them.
10. Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
11. They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about.
12. They sing to the music of tambourine and harp;
they make merry to the sound of the flute.
13. They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.
14. Yet they say to God, 'Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.
15. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
What would we gain by praying to him?'
16. But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
so I stand aloof from the counsel of the wicked.
17. "Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?
How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?
18. How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?
19. It is said, 'God stores up a man's punishment for his sons.'
Let him repay the man himself, so that he will know it!
20. Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21. For what does he care about the family he leaves behind
when his allotted months come to an end?
22. "Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?
23. One man dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease,
24. his body well nourished, his bones rich with marrow.
25. Another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.
26. Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.
27. "I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28. You say, 'Where now is the great man's house,
the tents where wicked men lived?'
29. Have you never questioned those who travel?
Have you paid no regard to their accounts-
30. that the evil man is spared from the day of calamity,
that he is delivered from the day of wrath?
31. Who denounces his conduct to his face?
Who repays him for what he has done?
32. He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
33. The soil in the valley is sweet to him;
all men follow after him, and a countless throng goes before him.
34. "So how can you console me with your nonsense?
Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!"
(7) grow old
늙게 되다, 늙어지다 (여기서 grow 는 become 이나 turn 의 뜻으로 쓰였다)
때로는 grow + 형용사 비교급 형용사 비교급으로 표현될 때도 있다
...and the sound of the trumpet
grewlowder and lowder.
Then Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him.
(9) be free from
~ 에서 벗어나다, ~을 하지 않게 되다
(though I
am not free fromGod's law
but am under Christ's law),
so as to win those not having the law.
여기서 not ~ but (not ~ 도 아니고 but ~ 도 아니다) 의 용볍도 그냥 넘어가면 안 된다
They did not follow my decrees but rejected my lawsㅡalthough the man who obeys them will live by themㅡand they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths.
(14) leave ~ alone
홀로 있게 하다 (명령문으로 많이 쓰임)
The one who sent me is with me; he has not
left me alone,
for I always do what pleases him.
이 문장에서 the one who (~ 하는 사람, 복수는 those who) 용법도 짚고 넘어가야 한다
I was silent; I would not open my mouth, for you are the one who has done this.
(15) by 동사 ing (동명사)
~ 하므로
They must be silenced, because they are ruining whole households
by teaching things they ought not to teachㅡand that for the sake of dishonest gain
(7) (16) (17) the wicked
the + 형용사 = 보통명사 복수'이지만
wicked 의 발음에 주의해야 한다. '위끼드'
Judge between your servants, condemning
the guilty and bringing down on his own head what he has done.
Declare the innocent not guilty, and so establish his innocence.
이 문장에서 innocent (형용사)와 innocence (명사) 의 관계도 알아두면 좋다.
different - difference, intelligent - intelligence, imortant - importance 등등
(19) it is said
~ 라고 알려졌다
You have heard that it was said, "Do not commit adultery."
so that ~
~ 하도록 (in order that 도 마찬가지)
Make the work harder for the men
so that they keep working and
pay no attention to lies.
이 문장에서 pay no attention to (~ 에 신경 쓰지 않는다, 관심 갖지 않는다) 도 중요하다
물론 no 를 빼면 '~ 에 집중한다. 관심 갖는다' 가 되고..
But they paid no attention and went offㅡone to his field, another to his business.
(25) anything good
형용사는 보통 명사 앞에 있으면서 명사를 꾸미는데
something, nothing, anything 등은 (물론 대명사이기는 하지만)
형용사의 위치가 뒤에 있다.
If a man dedicates his house as
something holy to the LORD,
the priest will judge its quality as good or bad.
(26) side by side
나란히
Sometimes you were publicly exposed to inlsut and persecution;
at other times times you stood side byside with those who were so treated.
이 문장에서 하나 더 알고 넘어가야 할 것,
at other times - 앞의 somtimes (언젠가는) 이 나오고
그 위에 other times 가 오면서 '또 다른 때에' 가 되었다.
The LORD came and stood there, calling as at the other times, "Samuel! Samuel!"
(34) but
~ 를 제외하고, ~ 빼고
There is one like you, O LORD, and there is no God
but you,
as we have heard with our own ears.