约伯记 18:19-21
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
19 在本族中他無子無孫，
在他寄居之地，也沒有生存的人。
20 西方的人因他的日子驚訝，
東方的人也戰慄不已。
21 不義的人之住所實在是這樣，
這就是不認識 神的人的收場。”
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约伯记 18:19-21
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
19 他在本族中无子无孙，
他所居之地无人生还。
20 他的下场令西方的人震惊，
令东方的人战栗。
21 这就是不义之人的结局，
不认识上帝之人的下场。”
約伯記 18:19-21
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
19 他在本族中無子無孫，
他所居之地無人生還。
20 他的下場令西方的人震驚，
令東方的人戰慄。
21 這就是不義之人的結局，
不認識上帝之人的下場。」
Job 18:19-21
New English Translation
19 He has neither children nor descendants[a] among his people,
no survivor in those places he once stayed.[b]
20 People of the west[c] are appalled at his fate;[d]
people of the east are seized with horror,[e] saying,[f]
21 ‘Surely such is the residence[g] of an evil man;
and this is the place of one who has not known God.’”[h]
Footnotes
- Job 18:19 tn The two words נִין (nin, “offspring”) and נֶכֶד (nekhed, “posterity”) are always together and form an alliteration. This is hard to capture in English, but some have tried: Moffatt had “son and scion,” and Tur-Sinai had “breed or brood.” But the words are best simply translated as “lineage and posterity” or as in the NIV “offspring or descendants.”
- Job 18:19 tn Heb “in his sojournings.” The verb גּוּר (gur) means “to reside; to sojourn” temporarily, without land rights. Even this word has been selected to stress the temporary nature of his stay on earth.
- Job 18:20 tn The word אַחֲרֹנִים (ʾakharonim) means “those [men] coming after.” And the next word, קַדְמֹנִים (qadmonim), means “those [men] coming before.” Some commentators have tried to see here references to people who lived before and people who lived after, but that does not explain their being appalled at the fate of the wicked. So the normal way this is taken is in connection to the geography, notably the seas—“the hinder sea” refers to the Mediterranean, the West, and “the front sea” refers to the Dead Sea (Zech 14:8), namely, the East. The versions understood this as temporal: “the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first” (LXX).
- Job 18:20 tn Heb “his day.”
- Job 18:20 tn The expression has “they seize horror.” The RSV renders this “horror seizes them.” The same idiom is found in Job 21:6: “laid hold on shuddering.” The idiom would solve the grammatical problem and not change the meaning greatly, but it would change the parallelism.
- Job 18:20 tn The word “saying” is supplied in the translation to mark and introduce the following as a quotation of these people who are seized with horror. The alternative is to take v. 21 as Bildad’s own summary statement (cf. G. R. Driver and G. B. Gray, Job [ICC], 2:162; J. E. Hartley, Job [NICOT], 280).
- Job 18:21 tn The term is in the plural, “the tabernacles”; it should be taken as a plural of local extension (see GKC 397 §124.b).
- Job 18:21 tn The word “place” is in construct; the clause following it replaces the genitive: “this is the place of—he has not known God.”
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