< 约伯记 8 >
And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —
2 这些话你要说到几时? 口中的言语如狂风要到几时呢?
Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind — sayings of thy mouth?
Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?
If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,
If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,
6 你若清洁正直, 他必定为你起来, 使你公义的居所兴旺。
If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.
And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.
For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,
9 我们不过从昨日才有,一无所知; 我们在世的日子好像影儿。
(For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)
10 他们岂不指教你,告诉你, 从心里发出言语来呢?
Do they not shew thee — speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?
'Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?
12 尚青的时候,还没有割下, 比百样的草先枯槁。
While it [is] in its budding — uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.
13 凡忘记 神的人,景况也是这样; 不虔敬人的指望要灭没。
So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,
Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
15 他要倚靠房屋,房屋却站立不住; 他要抓住房屋,房屋却不能存留。
He leaneth on his house — and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it — and it abideth not.
Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.
By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.
18 他若从本地被拔出, 那地就不认识他,说: 我没有见过你。
If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!
19 看哪,这就是他道中之乐; 以后必另有人从地而生。
Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'
Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.
21 他还要以喜笑充满你的口, 以欢呼充满你的嘴。
While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,
22 恨恶你的要披戴惭愧; 恶人的帐棚必归于无有。
Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!