約伯記 42
1 約伯回答上主說：
Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2 我知道你事事都能，你所有的計劃，沒有不實現的。
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withheld from thee.
3 是我以無智的話，使你的計劃模糊不明；是我說了無知的話，說了那些超越我智力的話。
Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that which I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4 請你聽我發言；我求你指教我。
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will ask of thee, and declare thou to me.
5 以前我只聽見了有關你的事，現今我親眼見了你。
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye seeth thee.
6 為此，我收回我所說過的話，坐在灰塵中懺悔。
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
7 上主對約伯說完這些話，就對特曼人厄里法次說：「我應向你和你的兩個友人發怒，因為你們講論我，不如我僕約伯講論的正確。
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
8 現在你們要牽七頭公牛，和七隻公羊到我僕約伯那裏，叫他為你們奉獻全燔祭，也叫他為你們祈禱，因為我要看他的情面，不懲罰你們的糊塗，因為你們講論我，不如我僕約伯講的正確。」
Therefore take to you now seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
9 於是，特曼人厄里法次、叔亞人彼耳達得、納阿瑪人左法爾依照上主所吩咐的作了；上主就看了約伯的情面，饒恕了他們。
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
10 約伯為他的朋友祈禱之後，上主就恢復了約伯原有的狀況，還照約伯以前所有的，加倍地賜給了他。
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 約伯的兄弟和姊妹，並以前相識的人都來看望他，在他家中同他一起用飯；對於上主降於他的一切災禍，都向他表示同情，安慰他；每人還贈給他一枚金幣和一個金戒指。
Then came there to him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house: and they mourned with him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
12 上主賜給約伯以後的福分，遠勝過以前所有的；他擁有一萬四千隻羊，六千匹駱駝，一千對牛，一千頭母驢。
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
13 他又生了七個兒子和三個女兒。
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14 他給長女起名叫耶米瑪，次女叫刻漆雅，三女叫刻楞哈普客。
And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
15 那地方的女子沒有比約伯的女兒更美麗的；她們的父親也使她們和兄弟們一樣承受家產。
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
16 以後，約伯又活了一百四十歲，見了他的兒子、孫子，直到第四代。
After this Job lived an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
17 約伯壽高年老，已享天年，遂與世長辭。
So Job died, being old and full of days.
