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Job 17

Latin original · 16 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

📖 This chapter exists in 3 other originals — side by side (Hebrew Old Testament, Septuagint, Ge'ez Bible)

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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。