Job 26

“How you have helped the powerless!
    How you have saved the arm that is feeble!

「そろいもそろって、なんという人たちだ。
苦しみの中にいるこの私を、
こんなにも励まし、助けてくれるとは。

What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
    And what great insight you have displayed!

思慮の足りない私を、ご親切にも、
いろいろ教え導いてくれたわけだ。

Who has helped you utter these words?
    And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

いったい、そんな才知あふれるこざかしい考えを
どうやって思いついたのか。

“The dead are in deep anguish,
    those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

死者は裸のまま神の前で震えている。

The realm of the dead is naked before God;
    Destruction^[a] lies uncovered.

He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
    he suspends the earth over nothing.

神はからっぽの空間に天を張り、
何もないところに地をつるす。

He wraps up the waters in his clouds,
    yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

神は雨を厚い雲に包み込むが、雲は裂けない。

He covers the face of the full moon,
    spreading his clouds over it.

また、雲で御座を覆い、

He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters
    for a boundary between light and darkness.

海の境界線を決め、昼と夜の境目を設けた。

The pillars of the heavens quake,
    aghast at his rebuke.

神がしかると、天の柱は大揺れに揺れる。

By his power he churned up the sea;
    by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.

神の力によって、海は鎮まる。
神は海の高ぶりを打ち砕く名人なのだ。

By his breath the skies became fair;
    his hand pierced the gliding serpent.

天は神の御霊によって美しく晴れ渡る。
神はまた、素早くはって逃げる蛇を刺し殺す。

And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
    how faint the whisper we hear of him!
    Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”