Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,

提幔人以利法回答說：

2 Hast you been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of your words?

人若想與你說話，你就厭煩嗎？ 但誰能忍住不說呢？

3 For whereas you have instructed many, and have strengthened the hands of the weak one,

你素來教導許多的人， 又堅固軟弱的手。

4 and have supported the failing with words, and have imparted courage to feeble knees.

你的言語曾扶助那將要跌倒的人； 你又使軟弱的膝穩固。

5 Yet now [that] pain has come upon you, and touched you, you are troubled.

但現在禍患臨到你，你就昏迷， 挨近你，你便驚惶。

6 Is not your fear [founded] in folly, your hope also, and the mischief of your way?

你的倚靠不是在你敬畏上帝嗎？ 你的盼望不是在你行事純正嗎？

7 Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

請你追想：無辜的人有誰滅亡？ 正直的人在何處剪除？

8 Accordingly as I have seen men ploughing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.

按我所見，耕罪孽、種毒害的人 都照樣收割。

9 They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath.

上帝一出氣，他們就滅亡； 上帝一發怒，他們就消沒。

10 The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.

獅子的吼叫和猛獅的聲音盡都止息； 少壯獅子的牙齒也都敲掉。

11 The old lion has perished for lack of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.

老獅子因絕食而死； 母獅之子也都離散。

12 But if there had been any truth in your words, none of these evils would have befallen you. Shall not mine ear receive excellent [revelations] from him?

我暗暗地得了默示； 我耳朵也聽其細微的聲音。

13 But [as when] terror falls upon men, with dread and a sound in the night,

在思念夜中、異象之間， 世人沉睡的時候，

14 horror and trembling seized me, and caused all my bones greatly to shake.

恐懼、戰兢臨到我身， 使我百骨打戰。

15 And a spirit came before my face; and my hair and flesh quivered.

有靈從我面前經過， 我身上的毫毛直立。

16 I arose and perceived it not: I looked, and there, was no form before my eyes: but I only heard a breath and a voice, [saying],

那靈停住， 我卻不能辨其形狀； 有影像在我眼前。 我在靜默中聽見有聲音說：

17 What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works?

必死的人豈能比上帝公義嗎？ 人豈能比造他的主潔淨嗎？

18 Whereas he trust not in his servants, and perceives perverseness in his angels.

主不信靠他的臣僕， 並且指他的使者為愚昧；

19 But [as for] them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them like a moth.

何況那住在土房、根基在塵土裏、 被蠹蟲所毀壞的人呢？

20 And from the morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they can’t help themselves.

早晚之間，就被毀滅， 永歸無有，無人理會。

21 For he blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.

他帳棚的繩索豈不從中抽出來呢？ 他死，且是無智慧而死。