Job 36
1 And Elihu adds and says:
以利戶又接着說：
2 “Honor me a little, and I show you, That yet for God [are] words.
你再容我片時，我就指示你， 因我還有話為上帝說。
3 I lift up my knowledge from afar, And I ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
我要將所知道的從遠處引來， 將公義歸給造我的主。
4 For my words [are] truly not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with you.
我的言語真不虛謊； 有知識全備的與你同在。
5 Behold, God [is] mighty, and does not despise, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
上帝有大能，並不藐視人； 他的智慧甚廣。
6 He does not revive the wicked, And appoints the judgment of the poor;
他不保護惡人的性命， 卻為困苦人伸冤。
7 He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous, And [from] kings on the throne, And causes them to sit forever, and they are high,
他時常看顧義人， 使他們和君王同坐寶座， 永遠要被高舉。
8 And if prisoners in chains They are captured with cords of affliction,
他們若被鎖鍊捆住， 被苦難的繩索纏住，
9 Then He declares to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
他就把他們的作為和過犯指示他們， 叫他們知道有驕傲的行動。
10 And He uncovers their ear for instruction, And commands that they turn back from iniquity.
他也開通他們的耳朵得受教訓， 吩咐他們離開罪孽轉回。
11 If they hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
他們若聽從事奉他， 就必度日亨通，歷年福樂；
12 And if they do not listen, They pass away by the dart, And expire without knowledge.
若不聽從， 就要被刀殺滅，無知無識而死。
13 And the profane in heart set the face, They do not cry when He has bound them.
那心中不敬虔的人積蓄怒氣； 上帝捆綁他們，他們竟不求救；
14 Their soul dies in youth, And their life among the defiled.
必在青年時死亡， 與污穢人一樣喪命。
15 He draws out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovers their ear in oppression.
上帝藉着困苦救拔困苦人， 趁他們受欺壓開通他們的耳朵。
16 And He also moved you from a narrow place [To] a broad place—no constriction under it, And the sitting beyond of your table has been full of fatness.
上帝也必引你出離患難， 進入寬闊不狹窄之地； 擺在你席上的必滿有肥甘。
17 And you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, Judgment and justice are upheld because of fury,
但你滿口有惡人批評的言語； 判斷和刑罰抓住你。
18 Lest He move you with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside.
不可容忿怒觸動你，使你不服責罰； 也不可因贖價大就偏行。
19 Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
你的呼求，或是你一切的勢力， 果有靈驗，叫你不受患難嗎？
20 Do not desire the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
不要切慕黑夜， 就是眾民在本處被除滅的時候。
21 Take heed—do not turn to iniquity, For you have fixed on this Rather than [on] affliction.
你要謹慎，不可重看罪孽， 因你選擇罪孽過於選擇苦難。
22 Behold, God sits on high by His power, Who [is] like Him—a teacher?
上帝行事有高大的能力； 教訓人的有誰像他呢？
23 Who has appointed to Him His way? And who said, You have done iniquity?
誰派定他的道路？ 誰能說：你所行的不義？
24 Remember that you magnify His work That men have beheld.
你不可忘記稱讚他所行的為大， 就是人所歌頌的。
25 All men have looked on it, Man looks attentively from afar.
他所行的，萬人都看見； 世人也從遠處觀看。
26 Behold, God [is] high, And we do not know the number of His years, Indeed, there [is] no searching.
上帝為大，我們不能全知； 他的年數不能測度。
27 When He diminishes droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapor,
他吸取水點， 這水點從雲霧中就變成雨；
28 Which clouds drop, They distill on man abundantly.
雲彩將雨落下，沛然降與世人。
29 Indeed, do [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His dwelling place?
誰能明白雲彩如何鋪張， 和上帝行宮的雷聲呢？
30 Behold, He has spread His light over it, And He has covered the roots of the sea,
他將亮光普照在自己的四圍； 他又遮覆海底。
31 For He judges peoples by them, He gives food in abundance.
他用這些審判眾民， 且賜豐富的糧食。
32 By two palms He has covered the light, And lays a charge over it in meeting,
他以電光遮手， 命閃電擊中敵人。
33 His shout shows it, The livestock also, the rising [storm].”
所發的雷聲顯明他的作為， 又向牲畜指明要起暴風。
