约伯记 Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
1 毯螅人以利法回答说，

2 "If one ventures a word with you, will you become impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?
2 人若想与你说话，你就厌烦吗。但谁能忍住不说呢。

3 Behold you have admonished many, and you have strengthened weak hands.
3 你素来教导许多的人，又坚固软弱的手。

4 Your words have helped the tottering to stand, and you have strengthened feeble knees.
4 你的言语曾扶助那将要跌倒的人。你又使软弱的膝稳固。

5 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
5 但现在祸患临到你，你就昏迷，挨近你，你便惊惶。

6 Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
6 你的倚靠不是在你敬畏神吗。你的盼望不是在你行事纯正吗。

7 Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed?
7 请你追想，无辜的人有谁灭亡。正直的人在何处剪除。

8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble harvest it.
8 按我所见，耕罪孽，种毒害的人，都照样收割。

9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they come to an end.
9 神一出气，他们就灭亡。神一发怒，他们就消没。

10 The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.
10 狮子的吼叫，和猛狮的声音，尽都止息。少壮狮子的牙齿，也都敲掉。

11 The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
11 老狮子因绝食而死。母狮之子也都离散。

12 "Now a word was brought to me stealthily, and my ear received a whisper of it.
12 我暗暗地得了默示。我耳朵也听其细微的声音。

13 Amid disquieting thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
13 在思念夜中，异象之间，世人沉睡的时候。

14 dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
14 恐惧，战兢临到我身，使我百骨打战。

15 Then a spirit passed by my face; the hair of my flesh bristled up.
15 有灵从我面前经过，我身上的毫毛直立。

16 It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:
16 那灵停住，我却不能辨其形状。有影像在我眼前。我在静默中听见有声音说，

17 'Can mankind be just before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?'
17 必死的人岂能比神公义吗。人岂能比造他的主洁净吗。

18 'He puts no trust even in His servants; and against His angels He charges error.
18 主不信靠他的臣仆，并且指他的使者为愚昧。

19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
19 何况那住在土房，根基在尘土里，被蠹虫所毁坏的人呢。

20 Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces; unobserved, they perish forever.
20 早晚之间，就被毁灭，永归无有，无人理会。

21 Is not their tent-cord pulled up within them? They die, yet without wisdom.'"
21 他帐棚的绳索岂不从中抽出来呢。他死，且是无智慧而死。