Job 35

1 And Elihu answers and says:

以利户又说：

2 “Have you reckoned this for judgment [when] you have said, My righteousness [is] more than God’s?

你以为有理， 或以为你的公义胜于 神的公义，

3 For you say, What does it profit You? What do I profit from my sin?

才说这与我有什么益处？ 我不犯罪比犯罪有什么好处呢？

4 I return words, and your friends with you,

我要回答你和在你这里的朋友。

5 Behold attentively the heavens—and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than you.

你要向天观看， 瞻望那高于你的穹苍。

6 If you have sinned, what do you do against Him? And your transgressions have been multiplied, What do you do to Him?

你若犯罪，能使 神受何害呢？ 你的过犯加增，能使 神受何损呢？

7 If you have been righteous, What do you give to Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?

你若是公义，还能加增他什么呢？ 他从你手里还接受什么呢？

8 For a man like yourself [is] your wickedness, And for a son of man your righteousness.

你的过恶或能害你这类的人； 你的公义或能叫世人得益处。

9 Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.

人因多受欺压就哀求， 因受能者的辖制便求救，

10 And none said, Where [is] God my Maker? Giving songs in the night,

却无人说：造我的 神在哪里？ 他使人夜间歌唱，

11 Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Indeed, He makes us wiser than the bird of the heavens.

教训我们胜于地上的走兽， 使我们有聪明胜于空中的飞鸟。

12 There they cry, and He does not answer, Because of the pride of evildoers.

他们在那里， 因恶人的骄傲呼求，却无人答应。

13 Surely God does not hear vanity, And the Mighty does not behold it.

虚妄的呼求， 神必不垂听； 全能者也必不眷顾。

14 Indeed, though you say you do not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stays for Him.

何况你说，你不得见他； 你的案件在他面前，你等候他吧。

15 And now, because there is not, He has appointed His anger, And He has not known in great extremity.

但如今因他未曾发怒降罚， 也不甚理会狂傲，

16 And Job opens his mouth [with] vanity, He multiplies words without knowledge.”

所以约伯开口说虚妄的话， 多发无知识的言语。