Job 4
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
特曼人厄里法次開始說：
2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
人若和你講話，你能忍受嗎﹖但誰又能忍住不說﹖
3 Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
看，你曾勸戒過許多人，堅固過軟弱無能的人；
4 Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
你的話扶起了跌倒的人，堅固了膝弱無力的人；
5 But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
但是現今災禍一臨於你，你就萎靡不振；一接觸你，你就沮喪失意。
6 Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
你敬畏天主之情，豈不是你的依靠﹖你完善的行為，豈不是你的希望﹖
7 Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
請想：那有無辜者喪亡﹖那有正直者消逝﹖
8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
照我所見：那播種邪惡的，必收邪惡；散佈毒害的，必收毒害。
9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
天主一噓氣，他們即滅亡；一發怒氣，他們即消失。
10 The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
獅吼豹嗥完全止息，幼獅的牙齒也被打碎；
11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
壯獅因缺獵物而滅絕，牝獅幼子各自東西離散。
12 Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
我竊聽到一句話，我耳聽見細語聲。
13 In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
當人沉睡時，夜夢多幻象；
14 fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
我恐怖戰慄，全身骨頭發抖。
15 Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
寒風掠過我面，使我毛髮悚然。
16 It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:
他停立不動，但我不能辨其形狀；我面前出現形影，我聽見細微的聲音：
17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
人豈能在天主前自以為義﹖在造他者前，自以為潔﹖
18 If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
看，他的僕役，他還不信；他的使者，他還歸罪，
19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
何況那以泥屋為居所，以塵土為基礎的人! 他們為人踐踏，有如蠹蟲；
20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
晨昏間即化為齏粉，永遠消亡而無人一顧。
21 Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
幕索如已自斷，他們豈不是因缺少智慧而死亡﹖
