< 约伯记 23 >
Then Job answered and said,
2 如今我的哀告还算为悖逆; 我的责罚比我的唉哼还重。
Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
3 惟愿我能知道在哪里可以寻见 神, 能到他的台前,
Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!
I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 我必知道他回答我的言语, 明白他向我所说的话。
I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
6 他岂用大能与我争辩吗? 必不这样!他必理会我。
Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me.
7 在他那里正直人可以与他辩论; 这样,我必永远脱离那审判我的。
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
8 只是,我往前行,他不在那里, 往后退,也不能见他。
Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there; ] and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
9 他在左边行事,我却不能看见, 在右边隐藏,我也不能见他。
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold [him: ] he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see [him: ]
10 然而他知道我所行的路; 他试炼我之后,我必如精金。
But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11 我脚追随他的步履; 我谨守他的道,并不偏离。
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
12 他嘴唇的命令,我未曾背弃; 我看重他口中的言语,过于我需用的饮食。
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].
13 只是他心志已定,谁能使他转意呢? 他心里所愿的,就行出来。
But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.
14 他向我所定的,就必做成; 这类的事他还有许多。
For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him.
Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
17 我的恐惧不是因为黑暗, 也不是因为幽暗蒙蔽我的脸。
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.