約伯記 15
1 特曼人厄里法次又發言說：
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 智者豈能以虛言作答﹖豈能以東風果腹﹖
“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
3 豈能以無益的廢話，無濟於事的言詞來辯護﹖
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4 不但如此，而且你還廢除了敬畏天主之情，斷絕了在他面前的默禱。
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
5 其實，是你的罪惡教導你說話，叫你的口舌詭辯。
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6 定你罪的，是你的口而不是我，是你的口唇作證控告你。
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
7 你豈是第一個出生的人﹖在山嶽未有之前，你豈已誕生﹖
“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
8 難道你聽見了天主的秘旨，把持著智慧﹖
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 有什麼事，只有你知，而我們不知；只有你明瞭，而我們不明瞭﹖
What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
10 我們之中也有白頭老人，年紀比你父親還大。
With us are both the grey-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
11 天主的安慰，和向你說的溫和的話，你以為還太少嗎﹖
Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle towards you?
12 你為何讓你的感情控制著你﹖你的眼為何冒火，
Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
13 竟向天主發怒，開口說出這樣的話﹖
that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
14 人算什麼而敢自稱潔淨，婦女所生的敢自稱正直﹖
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 他連自己的聖者，還不信賴；在他眼中，連蒼天也不純潔，
Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16 何況一個墮落可憎，飲惡如水的人。
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17 我要告訴你，你且聽我說；我要說明我的經驗，
“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
18 即賢哲所傳授，和祖先未曾隱瞞的事：──
(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
19 這地方原只賜給了他們，尚無一個外方人從他們中間經過。──
to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed amongst them):
20 惡人一生飽受苦惱，壽數已給暴君限定；
the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21 恐怖之聲常在他耳中，平靜時匪徒也來侵擾。
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
22 他不相信還能脫離黑暗，只等待遭受刀劍之害，
He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
23 注定作為鷹鳥的食物，自知大難業已臨頭。
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 黑暗的日子使他恐怖，困苦艱難跟隨著他，好像準備廝殺的君王。
Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 因為他曾伸手反抗過天主，向全能者傲慢逞強過；
Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
26 以伸直的頸項，以堅厚的盾背攻擊過天主。
he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
27 他的臉蓋滿了脂油，他的腰積滿了肥肉。
because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
28 他住在荒涼的城內，住在無人居留，行將化為廢墟的屋中。
He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
29 他不能富有，所有的財富也不能久存，也決不能向地下生根。
He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
30 他脫離不了黑暗，火燄要灼乾他的嫩芽，暴風要吹去他的花朵。
He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
31 別依恃枝椏已長大，應知這都是空虛；
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
32 未到時日，已經凋謝，枝葉再不發綠。
It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
33 有如葡萄未熟即被打下，橄欖開花即被搖落，
He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
34 因為惡人的家室必要絕嗣，火要燒盡受賄者的帳幕。
For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
35 他們所懷的是邪惡，所生的是罪孽；心胸懷念的，無非是欺詐。
They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
