約伯記 2
1 又有一天，上帝的眾子來侍立在耶和華面前，撒但也來在其中。
And it came to pass on a certain day, that the angels of God came to stand before the Lord, and the devil came among them to stand before the Lord.
2 耶和華問撒但說：「你從哪裏來？」撒但回答說：「我從地上走來走去，往返而來。」
And the Lord, said to the devil, Whence come you? Then the devil said before the Lord, I am come from going through the world, and walking about the whole earth.
3 耶和華問撒但說：「你曾用心察看我的僕人約伯沒有？地上再沒有人像他完全正直，敬畏上帝，遠離惡事。你雖激動我攻擊他，無故地毀滅他，他仍然持守他的純正。」
And the Lord said to the devil, Hast you then observed my servant Job, that there is none of [men] upon the earth like him, a harmless, true, blameless, godly man, abstaining from all evil? and he yet cleaves to innocence, whereas you has told [me] to destroy his substance without cause?
4 撒但回答耶和華說：「人以皮代皮，情願捨去一切所有的，保全性命。
And the devil answered and said to the Lord, Skin for skin, all that a man has will he give as a ransom for his life.
5 你且伸手傷他的骨頭和他的肉，他必當面棄掉你。」
Nay, but put forth your hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: verily he will bless you to [your] face.
6 耶和華對撒但說：「他在你手中，只要存留他的性命。」
And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to you; only save his life.
7 於是撒但從耶和華面前退去，擊打約伯，使他從腳掌到頭頂長毒瘡。
So the devil went out from the Lord, and struck Job with sore boils from [his] feet to [his] head.
8 約伯就坐在爐灰中，拿瓦片刮身體。
And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge, and sat upon a dung-heap outside the city.
9 他的妻子對他說：「你仍然持守你的純正嗎？你棄掉上帝，死了吧！」
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
10 約伯卻對她說：「你說話像愚頑的婦人一樣。噯！難道我們從上帝手裏得福，不也受禍嗎？」在這一切的事上約伯並不以口犯罪。
But he looked on her, and said to her, You have spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.
11 約伯的三個朋友－提幔人以利法、書亞人比勒達、拿瑪人瑣法－聽說有這一切的災禍臨到他身上，各人就從本處約會同來，為他悲傷，安慰他。
Now his three friends having heard of all the evil that was come upon him, came to him each from his own country: Eliphaz the king of the Thaemans, Baldad sovereign of the Saucheans, Sophar king of he Minaeans: and they came to him with one accord, to comfort and to visit him.
12 他們遠遠地舉目觀看，認不出他來，就放聲大哭。各人撕裂外袍，把塵土向天揚起來，落在自己的頭上。
And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him; and they cried with a loud voice, and wept, and tore every one his garment, and sprinkled dust upon [their heads],
13 他們就同他七天七夜坐在地上，一個人也不向他說句話，因為他極其痛苦。
and they sat down beside him seven days and seven nights, and no one of them spoke; for they saw that his affliction was dreadful and very great.
