Job 7장~20장

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Job 7

1. "Does not  man have hard service on earth ?Are not his days like those of a hired man?
2. Like a salve longing for the evening shadows or a hired man waiting eagerly for his wages,
3. so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have beeb assigned to me,
4. When I len dowm I think,'How long before I get up? The night drags on, and I toss till dawn.
5. y days have no meaning
6. "My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering,
7. "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope
8. Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again
9. The ey that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.
10. As a cloud vanishes and is gone. so he who goes down to the grave does not return.
11. He will never come to his house again; his place will know him no more
12. "Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
13. Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that you put me under guard?
14. When I think my bed will complaint, and my couch will ease my complant,
15. even then you frighten me with dreams and therrify me with visions
16. so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine
17. "What is man that you make so much of him, that you give him so much attention,
18. that you examine him every morning and test him every moment?
19. Will you never liik away from me, or let me alone even for an instant?
20. If have sinned , what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?
21. Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more."

Job 8

1. Then Bidad the Shuhite replied:
2. "How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind
3. Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
4. When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
5. But if you will look to God and plead with the Almighty
6. if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and testore you to your rightful place
7. Your beginnings will seem humble,so prosperous will your future be.
8. "Ask the former generations and find out what their fathers learned
9. for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
10. Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?
11. Can payyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?
12. While still growing and uncut, they siother more quickly than grass,
13. Such is the destiny of all who forged God: so prerishes the hope of the godless
14. What he trusts in is fragile; what he relies on is a spider's web,
15. He leans on his web, but it gives way; he clings to it, but it dies not hold.
16. He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine spreading its shoots over the garden;
17. it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.
18. But when it is torn form its spot, that place disowns it and says, 'I never saw you.'
19. Surely its life withers away, and from the soil other plants grow
20. "Surely God does not reject a blameless man or strengthen the hands of evildoers.
21. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy
22. Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more."

Job 9

1. Then Job replied:
2. "Indeed, I know that this is true. But how can a mortal be roghteous before God?
3. Through one wished to dispute with him he could not answer him one time out of a thousand
4. His wisdom is propound, his power is vast. Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?
5. He moves mountains without their knowing it and overturns them in his anger
6. He shakes the earth form its place and makes its pillars tremble
7. He speaks to the sun and it does not shine; he seals off the light of the stars.
8. He alone stetches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
9. He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion. the Pleiades and the constellations of the south
10. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.
11. When he passes me, I cannot see him; when he goes by, I cannot perceive him,
12. If he snatches away, who can stop him? Who can say to him,'What are you doing?'
13. God does not restrain his anger; even the cohorts of Rahab covered at his feet.
14. "How then can I dispute with him? How can I find words to argue with him?
15. Though I were innocent, I could not answer him, I could only plead with my Judge for mercy.
16. Even if I summoned him and he responded, I do not belive he would give me a hearing.
17. He would cruch me with a storm and multiply my wounds for no reason
18. He would not let me regain my breath but would  overwhelm me with misery.
19. If it is matter of strengh, he is mighty! And if  it is a matter of  justicem who will summon him?
20. Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.
21. "Although I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life
22. It is all the same; that is why I say,'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'
23. When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.
24. When a land falls into the hands of the wicked,he blindfolds its judges .If  it is not he, then who is it?
25. "My days are swifter than a runner, they fly away without a glimpse of joy.
26. They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey.
27. If I say,'I will gorget my complaint, I will change my expression‎ , and smile,
28. I still dread all my sufferings, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
29. Since I am already found guilty, why should I stryggle in vain?
30. Even if  I washed myself with soap and my hands with washing soda,
31. you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me
32. "He is not a man like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court
33. If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both.
34. someone to remove God's rod from me so that his terror would frighten me no more.
35. Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.

Job 10

1. "I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.
2. I will say to God: Do not condemn me, but tell me what cahrge you have against me.
3. Does it please you to opperess me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
4. Do you have eyes of  flesh? Do you see as a mortal sees?
5. Are your days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a man
6. that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin-
7. though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?
8. "Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?
9. Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?
10. Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese.
11. clothe me with skin and flesh and knot me together with bones and sinews?
12. You gave me life and showed me kindness and in your providence watched over my spirit.
13. "But this is what you conceled in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind;
14. If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.
15. If I am guilty-woe to me ! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in my afficition
16. If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.
17. You bring new withness against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave
18. "Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.
19. If only I had never come into being or had been carried straight from the womb to theg rave!
20. Are not my few days almost over? Turen away from me so I can have a moment's joy
21. before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and deep shadow,
22. to the land of deepest nith, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."

Job 11

1. Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2. "Are all these whords to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindiocated?
3. Will your idle talk reduce men to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?
4. You say to God,'My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.'
5. Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you
6. and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even foregotten some of your sin.
7. "Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
8. They are highter than the heavens-what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave-what can you know?
9. Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
10. "If he comes along and confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him?
11. Surely he recognizes deceitful men; and when he sees evil, does he not take note?
12. But a witless man can no more become wise than a wild donkey's colt can be born a man.
13. "Yet if you devote your heart to him and strecch out your hands to him
14. if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil tod well in your tent,
15. then you will lift up your face without shame you will stand firm and without fear.
16. You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.
17. Life will be brighter than noonday and darkness will become like morning
18. You will be secure, because there is hope , you will look about you and take your rest in safethy
19. You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid, and many will court your favor
20. But the eyes of the wicked will fail , and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp."

Job 12

1. Then Job relied:
2. "Doubtless you are the people, and wisdom will die with you !
3. But I have a mind as well as you: I am not inferior to you, Who does no know all these things?
4. "I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I cammed upon God and he ansered- a mere lasughingstock, though righteous and blameless!
5. Men at ease have contempt for misfirtune a sthe fate of those whose feet are slipping
6. The tents of marauders are undisturbed, and those who provoke God are secure-those who crry theit god in their hands.
7. "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
8. or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you.
9. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
10. In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.
11. Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food?
12. Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
13. "To God belong wisdom and power, counsel and understanding are his.
14. What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man he imprisons cannot be released.
15. If he holds bck the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they decaste the land.
16. To him belong strenght and victory; both deceived and deceiver are his
17. He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges;
18. He takes off the shackles put on by kings and ties a loincloth around their waist.
19. He leads priests away stripped and overthrows men long estanlished,
20. He silences the lips of ttrusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.
21. He pours contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
22. He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into the light
23. He makes nations great, and destroys them; he enlarges nations, and disperses them.
24. He deprives the leaders of thee earth of their reason; he sends them wandering through a trackless waste
25. They grope ind arkness with no light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

Job 13

1. "My eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.
2. What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you
3. But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God.
4. You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you!
5. If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
6. Hear now my argument; ;listen to the plea of my lips
7. Will you speak wickedly on God's behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him?
8. Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God?
9. Would it turn out well if he examinded you? Could you deceive him as you might deceive men?
10. He would surely rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.
11. Would not his spendor terrify you? Would not the dread of him fall on you?
12. Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
13. "Keep silent and let me speak; then let come to me what may.
14. Whey do I put myself in jeopardy and take my life in jeopardy and take my life in my hands?
15. Through he slay me, yet will I hope in him. I will surely defend my ways to his face.
16. Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance. for no godless man would dare come before him!
17. Listen carefully to my words; let your ears take in what I say.
18. Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated.
19. Can anyone bring caharges against me? If so, I will be silent and die
20. "Only grant me these two things, O God and then I will not hide from you:
21. Withdraw your hand far from me, and stop frightening me with your terrors.
22. Then summon me and I will answer, or let me speak, and you reply.
23. How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my offense and my sin.
24. Whey do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?
25. Will you torment a windblow leaf? Will you chase after dry chaff?
26. For you write down bitter things against me and make me inherit the sins of my youth.
27. You fasten my feet in shackles; you keep close watch on all my patjs by putting marks on the soles of my feet.
28. "So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by months

Job 14

1. "Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble.
2. He springs up like a flower and withers away. like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure
3. Do you fix your eye on such a one? Will you bring him before you for judgment?
4. Whi can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
5. Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set  limits he cannot exceed
6. So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man.
7. "At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the fail,
8. Its roots may grow old in the ground and its new shoots will not fail
9. yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.
10. But man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more
11. As water disappers from the sea or a riverbed becomes parched and dry.
12. so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more ,men will not awake or be roused from their sleep.
13. "If only  you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has pssed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!
14. If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come
15. You will call and I will answer you; you will long for te creature yourhands have made.
16. Syrely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.
17. My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin
18. "But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place
19. s water wears away stomes and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man's hop[e
20. You overpower him once for all, and he is gone; you change his countenance and send him away.
21. If his sons are honored, he does not know it of they are brought low, he does not see it.
22. He feels but the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself."

Job 15

1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied;
2. "Would a wise man answer with empty notions or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
3. Would he argue with wseless words, with speeches that have no value?
4. But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.
5. Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.
6. Your own mouth condemns you, not mine, your own lips testify against you.
7. "Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
8. Do you listen in on God's souncil? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9. What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you hve that we do not have?
10. The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father
11. Are God's consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?
12. Why has your hear carried you away. and why do your eyes flash
13. so that you vent your rge against God and pur out such words from your mouth?
14. "What is man, that he could be pure or one born of woman, that he could be righteous?
15. If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
16. how much less man, who is vite and corrupt, who drinks up evil like water!
17. "Listen to me and I will explain to you: let me tell you what I have seen,
18. what wise men have declared, hiding notting received from their fathers
19. (to whom alone the land was given  when no alien passed among them);
20. All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless through all the years stored up for him,
21. Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well. marauders attack him. he is marked for the sword
22. He despairs of escaping the darkness; he is marked for the sword.
23. He wanders about -food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
24. Distress and anguish fill him with terror; they overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack
25. because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
26. defiantly charging against  him with a thick, strong shield.
27. "Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,
28. he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.
29. He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land
30. He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him way.
31. Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless, for he will get nothing in return
32. Bfore his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.
33. He will be like a vine stripped of  its unripe grapes. like an olive tree shedding its blossoms
34. For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume thet ents of those who love bribes
35. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil;their womb fashions deceit."

Job 16

1. Then Job replied:
2. "I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all!
3. Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?
4. I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you nd shake my head at you.
5. But 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.
7. Surely, O God, you have worn me out; you have devstated my entire household
8. You have bound me- and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me
9. God ssails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes
10. Men open their mouths to jeer at me. they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.
11. God has turned me over to evil men and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked
12. All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his taget;
13. his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys nd spills my gall on the ground.
14. Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.
15. "I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and burried my brow in the dust.
16. My face is red with weeping,d eep shadows ring my eyes;
17. yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
18. "O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!
19. Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocte is on high
20. My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pout out tears to God;
21. on behalf of a man he pleads with God as a man pleads for his friend.
22. "Onlt a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return

Job 17

1. My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.
2. Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostlity.
3. "Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Who else will put up security for me?
4. You have closed their minds to understanding; theirfore you will not let them triumph
5. If a man denounces his friends for rewoard, the eyes of his children will fail.
6. "God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.
7. My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow
8. Upright men re appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly
9. Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger
10. "But come on, all of you, try again! I will not  find a wise man among you.
11. My days hve passed, my plns are shattered, and so are the desires of my heart.
12. These men turn night into day: inm the face of darkness they say, 'Light is near.'
13. If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14. if I say to corruptiom,'You are my father,' nd to the worm, 'My mother' or 'My sister,'
15. where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16. Will it go down to the gates of death? Will we descent together into the dust?"

Job 18

1. Then Bidad the Shuhite replied:
2. "When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
3. Why are we regard as cattle and considered stupid in your sight>
4. You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must rocks be moved from their place?
5. "The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out: the flame of his fire stops burning
6. The light in his tent becomes dark; the lam[p beside him goes out.
7. The vigor of his step is weakened; hos own schemes throw him down
8. His feet thrust him into a net and he wanders into ots mesh.
9. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
10. A noose is hidden for him on the ground ;  trap lies in his path.
11. Terrors startle him on every side nd dog his every step.
12. Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
13. It eats away parts of his skin; death's firstborn devours his limbs.
14. He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off the the king of terrors.
15. Fire resides in his tent; burnining sulfur is scattered over his dwelling
16. His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
17. The memory of him perushes from the earth he has no name in the land.
18. He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
19. He has no offspring or descendants among his people. no survivor where once he lived.
20. Men of the west are appalled at his fate; men of the east are seized with horror.
21. Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who knows not God."

Job 19

1. Then Job replied:
2. "How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
3. Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you ttack me
4. If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.
5. If indeed you would exalth yourselves above me and use my humiltion gainst me,
6. then know that God has wronged me and drwn his net around me.
7. Though I cry,'I've been wronged!' I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
8. He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness
9. He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10. He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like  tree.
11. His nger burns gainst me; he counts me among his enemies.
12. His troops dvnce in force; tey built a siege ramp gainst me nd encamp round my tent.
13. "He has alienated my brothers from me; my acquaintances re completely estranged from me.
14. My kinsmen have gone away; my friends have forgotten me
15. My guests and my maidservants count me a stranger, they look upon me as an alien.
16. I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth
17. My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own brothers.
18. Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.
19. All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.
20. I am nothing but skin and bones; I have secaped with only the skin of my feeth.
21. "Have pity on me. my friends. have pity. for the hand of God has struck me.
22. Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23. "Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,
24. that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!
25. IO know that my Redeemer lives, nd that in the end he will stnd upon the earth.
26. And after my skin hs been destroyed , yet in my flesh I will see God:
27. I myself will see him with my own eyes- I , and not another. How my ehart yearns within me!
28. "If you say,'How we will hound him. since the root of the trouble lies in him,
29. you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword and then you will know that there is judgement."

Jon 20

1. Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2. "My trouble thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed
3. I hear a rebuke that dishonoirs me, and my understanding inspires me to reply
4. "Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since mn was plced on the earth.
5. that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lsts but a moment.
6. Though his pride reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds.
7. he will perish forever, like his own dung those who hve seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
8. Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found banished like a vision of the night
9. The ey that sw him will not see him again, his place will look on him no more.
10. His children must mke mends to the poor. his own hands must give bck his welth.
11. The youthful vigor that fills his bines will lie with him in the dust.
12. "Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,
13. though he cnnot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
14. yet  his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.
15. He will spit out te riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up
16. He will suck the poison of serpents; the fangs of an adder will kill him
17. He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream,
18. What he toiled for he must give bck uneaten: he will not enjoy the profit from his trading
19. For he has oppressed the poor and lft them destitute; he has seized house he did not not build.
20. "Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cnnot save himself by his trasure.
21. Nothing  is left for him to deyour, his prosperity will noit endure
22. In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him.
23. When he has filled his belly, God will vent  his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him.
24. Thjough he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.
25. He pulls it out of his bck, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;
26. total darkness lies in wait foir his trasures. Afire unfanned will consume him nd devour what is left in his tent.
27. The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up gainst him.
28. A flood will crry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.
29. Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God."

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