约伯记 2
1 又有一天， 神的众子来侍立在耶和华面前，撒但也来在其中。
And the day is, that sons of God come to station themselves by YHWH, and there also comes Satan in their midst to station himself by YHWH.
2 耶和华问撒但说：“你从哪里来？”撒但回答说：“我从地上走来走去，往返而来。”
And YHWH says to Satan, “From where have you come?” And Satan answers YHWH and says, “From going to and fro in the land, and from walking up and down in it.”
3 耶和华问撒但说：“你曾用心察看我的仆人约伯没有？地上再没有人像他完全正直，敬畏 神，远离恶事。你虽激动我攻击他，无故地毁灭他，他仍然持守他的纯正。”
And YHWH says to Satan, “Have you set your heart to My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? And still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and you move Me against him to swallow him up for nothing!”
4 撒但回答耶和华说：“人以皮代皮，情愿舍去一切所有的，保全性命。
And Satan answers YHWH and says, “A skin for a skin, and all that a man has he gives for his life.
5 你且伸手伤他的骨头和他的肉，他必当面弃掉你。”
Yet, put forth Your hand now, and strike to his bone and to his flesh—if not, he blesses You to Your face!”
6 耶和华对撒但说：“他在你手中，只要存留他的性命。”
And YHWH says to Satan, “Behold, he [is] in your hand; only take care of his life.”
7 于是撒但从耶和华面前退去，击打约伯，使他从脚掌到头顶长毒疮。
And Satan goes forth from the presence of YHWH, and strikes Job with a severe ulcer from the sole of his foot to his crown.
8 约伯就坐在炉灰中，拿瓦片刮身体。
And he takes to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
9 他的妻子对他说：“你仍然持守你的纯正吗？你弃掉 神，死了吧！”
And his wife says to him, “You are still keeping hold on your integrity: bless God and die.”
10 约伯却对她说：“你说话像愚顽的妇人一样。嗳！难道我们从 神手里得福，不也受祸吗？”在这一切的事上约伯并不以口犯罪。
And he says to her, “As one of the foolish women speaks, you speak; indeed, do we receive the good from God, and we do not receive the bad?” In all this Job has not sinned with his lips.
11 约伯的三个朋友—提幔人以利法、书亚人比勒达、拿玛人琐法—听说有这一切的灾祸临到他身上，各人就从本处约会同来，为他悲伤，安慰他。
And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that has come on him, and they each come in from his place—Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—and they have met together to come to bemoan him, and to comfort him;
12 他们远远地举目观看，认不出他来，就放声大哭。各人撕裂外袍，把尘土向天扬起来，落在自己的头上。
and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and each tears his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads—heavenward.
13 他们就同他七天七夜坐在地上，一个人也不向他说句话，因为他极其痛苦。
And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking to him a word when they have seen that the pain has been very great.
