Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,

提幔人以利法回答说：

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

人若想与你说话，你就厌烦吗？ 但谁能忍住不说呢？

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

你素来教导许多的人， 又坚固软弱的手。

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

你的言语曾扶助那将要跌倒的人； 你又使软弱的膝稳固。

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

但现在祸患临到你，你就昏迷， 挨近你，你便惊惶。

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 神吗？ 你的盼望不是在你行事纯正吗？

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

请你追想：无辜的人有谁灭亡？ 正直的人在何处剪除？

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

按我所见，耕罪孽、种毒害的人 都照样收割。

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

神一出气，他们就灭亡； 神一发怒，他们就消没。

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

狮子的吼叫和猛狮的声音尽都止息； 少壮狮子的牙齿也都敲掉。

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

老狮子因绝食而死； 母狮之子也都离散。

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； 我耳朵也听其细微的声音。

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

在思念夜中、异象之间， 世人沉睡的时候，

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

恐惧、战兢临到我身， 使我百骨打战。

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

有灵从我面前经过， 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],

那灵停住， 我却不能辨其形状； 有影像在我眼前。 我在静默中听见有声音说：

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

必死的人岂能比 神公义吗？ 人岂能比造他的主洁净吗？

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

主不信靠他的臣仆， 并且指他的使者为愚昧；

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.

何况那住在土房、根基在尘土里、 被蠹虫所毁坏的人呢？

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

早晚之间，就被毁灭， 永归无有，无人理会。

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

他帐棚的绳索岂不从中抽出来呢？ 他死，且是无智慧而死。