约伯记 18

1 书亚人比勒达回答说：

But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying:

2 你寻索言语要到几时呢？ 你可以揣摩思想，然后我们就说话。

How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.

3 我们为何算为畜生， 在你眼中看作污秽呢？

Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?

4 你这恼怒将自己撕裂的， 难道大地为你见弃、 磐石挪开原处吗？

You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?

5 恶人的亮光必要熄灭； 他的火焰必不照耀。

Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine?

6 他帐棚中的亮光要变为黑暗； 他以上的灯也必熄灭。

Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.

7 他坚强的脚步必见狭窄； 自己的计谋必将他绊倒。

His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.

8 因为他被自己的脚陷入网中， 走在缠人的网罗上。

For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.

9 圈套必抓住他的脚跟； 机关必擒获他。

His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him.

10 活扣为他藏在土内； 羁绊为他藏在路上。

A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path.

11 四面的惊吓要使他害怕， 并且追赶他的脚跟。

Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet.

12 他的力量必因饥饿衰败； 祸患要在他旁边等候。

Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.

13 他本身的肢体要被吞吃； 死亡的长子要吞吃他的肢体。

Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.

14 他要从所倚靠的帐棚被拔出来， 带到惊吓的王那里。

Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king.

15 不属他的必住在他的帐棚里； 硫磺必撒在他所住之处。

Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.

16 下边，他的根本要枯干； 上边，他的枝子要剪除。

Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.

17 他的记念在地上必然灭亡； 他的名字在街上也不存留。

Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets.

18 他必从光明中被撵到黑暗里， 必被赶出世界。

He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.

19 在本民中必无子无孙； 在寄居之地也无一人存留。

Neither his offspring, nor his descendants, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.

20 以后来的要惊奇他的日子， 好像以前去的受了惊骇。

The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror.

21 不义之人的住处总是这样； 此乃不认识 神之人的地步。

And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God.