Job 2
1 And the day is, that sons of God come to station themselves by YHWH, and there also comes Satan in their midst to station himself by YHWH.
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。
2 And YHWH says to Satan, “From where have you come?” And Satan answers YHWH and says, “From going to and fro in the land, and from walking up and down in it.”
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。」
3 And YHWH says to Satan, “Have you set your heart to My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? And still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and you move Me against him to swallow him up for nothing!”
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。」
4 And Satan answers YHWH and says, “A skin for a skin, and all that a man has he gives for his life.
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。
5 Yet, put forth Your hand now, and strike to his bone and to his flesh—if not, he blesses You to Your face!”
你且伸手傷他的骨頭和他的肉，他必當面棄掉你。」
6 And YHWH says to Satan, “Behold, he [is] in your hand; only take care of his life.”
耶和華對撒但說：「他在你手中，只要存留他的性命。」
7 And Satan goes forth from the presence of YHWH, and strikes Job with a severe ulcer from the sole of his foot to his crown.
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。
8 And he takes to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
約伯就坐在爐灰中，拿瓦片刮身體。
9 And his wife says to him, “You are still keeping hold on your integrity: bless God and die.”
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！」
10 And he says to her, “As one of the foolish women speaks, you speak; indeed, do we receive the good from God, and we do not receive the bad?” In all this Job has not sinned with his lips.
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。
11 And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that has come on him, and they each come in from his place—Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—and they have met together to come to bemoan him, and to comfort him;
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。
12 and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and each tears his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads—heavenward.
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。
13 And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking to him a word when they have seen that the pain has been very great.
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。
