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以利法復責約伯妄言己義

15 提幔以利法回答說: 「智慧人豈可用虛空的知識回答,用東風充滿肚腹呢? 他豈可用無益的話和無濟於事的言語理論呢? 你是廢棄敬畏的意,在神面前阻止敬虔的心。 你的罪孽指教你的口,你選用詭詐人的舌頭。 你自己的口定你有罪,並非是我,你自己的嘴見證你的不是。

「你豈是頭一個被生的人嗎?你受造在諸山之先嗎? 你曾聽見神的密旨嗎?你還將智慧獨自得盡嗎? 你知道什麼是我們不知道的呢?你明白什麼是我們不明白的呢? 10 我們這裡有白髮的和年紀老邁的,比你父親還老。 11 神用溫和的話安慰你,你以為太小嗎? 12 你的心為何將你逼去,你的眼為何冒出火星, 13 使你的靈反對神,也任你的口發這言語? 14 人是什麼,竟算為潔淨呢?婦人所生的是什麼,竟算為義呢? 15 神不信靠他的眾聖者,在他眼前天也不潔淨, 16 何況那汙穢可憎、喝罪孽如水的世人呢?

惡人處世不離驚惶

17 「我指示你,你要聽。我要述說所看見的, 18 就是智慧人從列祖所受、傳說而不隱瞞的。 19 (這地唯獨賜給他們,並沒有外人從他們中間經過。) 20 惡人一生之日劬勞痛苦,強暴人一生的年數也是如此。 21 驚嚇的聲音常在他耳中,在平安時,搶奪的必臨到他那裡。 22 他不信自己能從黑暗中轉回,他被刀劍等候。 23 他漂流在外求食,說:『哪裡有食物呢?』他知道黑暗的日子在他手邊預備好了。 24 急難困苦叫他害怕,而且勝了他,好像君王預備上陣一樣。 25 他伸手攻擊神,以驕傲攻擊全能者, 26 挺著頸項,用盾牌的厚凸面向全能者直闖, 27 是因他的臉蒙上脂油,腰積成肥肉。 28 他曾住在荒涼城邑,無人居住、將成亂堆的房屋。 29 他不得富足,財物不得常存,產業在地上也不加增。 30 他不得出離黑暗,火焰要將他的枝子燒乾。因神口中的氣,他要滅亡[a] 31 他不用倚靠虛假欺哄自己,因虛假必成為他的報應。 32 他的日期未到之先這事必成就,他的枝子不得青綠。 33 他必像葡萄樹的葡萄未熟而落,又像橄欖樹的花一開而謝。 34 原來不敬虔之輩必無生育,受賄賂之人的帳篷必被火燒。 35 他們所懷的是毒害,所生的是罪孽,心裡所預備的是詭詐。」

Footnotes

  1. 約伯記 15:30 「滅亡」原文作「走去」。

Eliphaz

15 Then Eliphaz the Temanite(A) replied:

“Would a wise person answer with empty notions
    or fill their belly with the hot east wind?(B)
Would they argue with useless words,
    with speeches that have no value?(C)
But you even undermine piety
    and hinder devotion to God.(D)
Your sin(E) prompts your mouth;(F)
    you adopt the tongue of the crafty.(G)
Your own mouth condemns you, not mine;
    your own lips testify against you.(H)

“Are you the first man ever born?(I)
    Were you brought forth before the hills?(J)
Do you listen in on God’s council?(K)
    Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?(L)
What do you know that we do not know?
    What insights do you have that we do not have?(M)
10 The gray-haired and the aged(N) are on our side,
    men even older than your father.(O)
11 Are God’s consolations(P) not enough for you,
    words(Q) spoken gently to you?(R)
12 Why has your heart(S) carried you away,
    and why do your eyes flash,
13 so that you vent your rage(T) against God
    and pour out such words(U) from your mouth?(V)

14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure,
    or those born of woman,(W) that they could be righteous?(X)
15 If God places no trust in his holy ones,(Y)
    if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,(Z)
16 how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt,(AA)
    who drink up evil(AB) like water!(AC)

17 “Listen to me and I will explain to you;
    let me tell you what I have seen,(AD)
18 what the wise have declared,
    hiding nothing received from their ancestors(AE)
19 (to whom alone the land(AF) was given
    when no foreigners moved among them):
20 All his days the wicked man suffers torment,(AG)
    the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.(AH)
21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears;(AI)
    when all seems well, marauders attack him.(AJ)
22 He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness;(AK)
    he is marked for the sword.(AL)
23 He wanders about(AM) for food like a vulture;(AN)
    he knows the day of darkness(AO) is at hand.(AP)
24 Distress and anguish(AQ) fill him with terror;(AR)
    troubles overwhelm him, like a king(AS) poised to attack,
25 because he shakes his fist(AT) at God
    and vaunts himself against the Almighty,(AU)
26 defiantly charging against him
    with a thick, strong shield.(AV)

27 “Though his face is covered with fat
    and his waist bulges with flesh,(AW)
28 he will inhabit ruined towns
    and houses where no one lives,(AX)
    houses crumbling to rubble.(AY)
29 He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure,(AZ)
    nor will his possessions spread over the land.(BA)
30 He will not escape the darkness;(BB)
    a flame(BC) will wither his shoots,(BD)
    and the breath of God’s mouth(BE) will carry him away.(BF)
31 Let him not deceive(BG) himself by trusting what is worthless,(BH)
    for he will get nothing in return.(BI)
32 Before his time(BJ) he will wither,(BK)
    and his branches will not flourish.(BL)
33 He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes,(BM)
    like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.(BN)
34 For the company of the godless(BO) will be barren,
    and fire will consume(BP) the tents of those who love bribes.(BQ)
35 They conceive trouble(BR) and give birth to evil;(BS)
    their womb fashions deceit.”

15 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.