約伯記 8
1 叔亞人彼耳達得發言說：
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 這些話你要講到幾時﹖你口中的話像狂風要到何時﹖
How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
3 天主豈能違背公道﹖全能者豈能屈枉正義﹖
Doth God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
4 若你的子女得罪了他，他必將他們交於罪過的權勢下。
If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
5 你若急切尋覓天主，哀求全能者；
If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
6 你若純潔正直，他必親來守護你，恢復你正義的居所。
If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
7 你起初雖然微小，今後必要興隆強大。
And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
8 請你查問上一代，細想祖先的經驗；
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
9 因為我們由昨日纔有，本來一無所知；我們在世上的日月，好似影子。
For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
10 他們必訓誡你，指教你，向你說出內心的話：
Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 蒲草不在池沼內，怎能長大﹖蘆葦沒有水，怎會長起﹖
Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?
12 在茁壯中，尚未砍下，已先百草而枯萎。
Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.
13 凡忘記天主的，他的末路也是這樣：惡人的希望必化為泡影。
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
14 他的依靠好似游絲，他的憑藉有如蛛網。
Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
15 他倚恃自己的家，但它卻站立不住；他要依附自己的住所，住所卻不能久存。
He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.
16 它在日光下而青蔥，枝蔓爬滿了園囿，
He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
17 根盤據在石堆上，纏繞在石屋上。
His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
18 若有人從原處把它拔除，那地必否認說：「我未曾見過它。」
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
19 看，它要腐爛在路上，必從地上生出另一棵。
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.
20 天主決不棄捨完善的人，也決不支持惡人的勢力。
Behold, God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.
21 你的口角必再洋溢著喜悅，你的唇邊必再充滿歡笑。
Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,
22 憎恨你的必蒙受羞辱，惡人的帳幕必化為烏有。
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.
