约伯记 22
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
以利法第三次发言
22 提幔人以利法回答说：
2 “人对 神能有甚么益处呢？
明智的人只能益己。
3 你为人公义可讨全能者喜悦吗？
你行为完全可有利于他呢？
4 他是因你敬畏他而责备你，
对你施行审判吗？
5 你的罪恶不是很大吗？
你的罪孽不是没有穷尽吗？
6 你无缘无故强取兄弟的东西作当头，
剥去衣不蔽体的人的衣服。
7 疲乏的人你没有给他水喝，
饥饿的人你没有给他饭吃。
8 有势力的人就有土地，
尊贵的人住在其中。
9 你叫寡妇空手而去，你折断孤儿的膀臂。
10 因此有网罗环绕着你，
恐惧也忽然使你惊慌。
11 光明变成黑暗，以致你看不见，
并且洪水淹没你。
12 神不是高于诸天吗？
你看看最高的星星，多么的高啊！
13 你说：‘ 神知道甚么？
他能透过幽暗施行审判吗？
14 密云把他遮盖，使他不能看见我们；
他在天上的圆圈上面走来走去。’
15 你要谨守古往的道，
就是恶人所行走的吗？
16 他们未到时候，就被抓去，
他们的根基被洪水冲去。
17 他们对 神说：‘离开我们吧！
全能者能把我们怎么样呢？’
18 他用美物充满他们的房屋，
恶人的谋算远离我。
19 义人看见了，就欢喜；
无辜的人嘲笑他们，说：
20 ‘我们的对头必被剪除，
他们剥下来的有火吞灭了。’
劝约伯悔改，远离不义
21 你与 神和好，就可以得平安，
这样，福乐就必临到你。
22 你该从他口中领受训诲，
把他的话放在心里。
23 你若归向全能者，就必得建立；
你若使不义远离你的帐棚，
24 把你的金块丢在尘土中，
把俄斐的金块丢在河流的石头间，
25 全能者就必作你的金块，
作你的银堆，
26 你就必以全能者为乐，
向 神仰起脸来。
27 你向他祈求，他就垂听你，
你也要还你的愿。
28 你决定的计划，他必为你成全，
光明必照在你的路上。
29 人谦卑的时候，你就说：‘升高吧！’
眼中谦卑的他必拯救，
30 并非无辜的人， 神尚且搭救他；
他要因你手中的洁净得救拔。”
Job 22
Common English Bible
Job’s sins
22 Then Eliphaz from Teman answered:
2 Can a human being be useful to God?
Can an intelligent person bring profit?
3 Does the Almighty delight in your innocence?
Does he gain when you perfect your ways?
4 Does he rebuke you for your piety,
bring you in for judgment?
5 Isn’t your wickedness massive,
your iniquity endless?
6 You have taken payments from your family for no reason;
stripped the naked, leaving no clothes;
7 denied water to the thirsty,
withheld bread from the starving.
(8 The powerful own land;
the favored live in it.)
9 You have sent widows away empty;
crushed orphans’ resources.
10 For this reason, snares surround you;
sudden dread brings panic to you
11 or a darkness that you can’t see;
rushing water will cover you.
God’s activity
12 Isn’t God in the heights of heaven;
see how high the topmost stars are?
13 You say: “What does God know?
Can he judge through thick clouds?
14 Clouds conceal him so he can’t see
while he walks on heaven’s rim.”
15 Will you keep the ancient way
traveled by sinful persons,
16 who were snatched prematurely
when a river flooded their foundations,
17 who say to God, “Turn away from us;
what can the Almighty do to us?”
18 Yet he filled their houses with good things;
a sinner’s logic is beyond me.
19 The righteous see and rejoice;
the innocent mock them:
20 our enemies are certainly cut off;
fire will devour what’s left of them.
Turn to God
21 Get along well with God and be at peace;
from this something good will come to you.
22 Receive instruction from his mouth;
put his words in your mind.
23 If you return to the Almighty,[a] you will be restored;
if you keep wrongdoing out of your tent.
24 Lay your prized possession in the dust,
your gold from Ophir on a rock in a desert streambed.
25 The Almighty will be your prized possession,
silver piled up for you.
26 Then you will take pleasure in the Almighty;
lift up your face to God.
27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you;
you will fulfill your solemn promises.
28 If you decree something, it will stand;
light will shine on your ways.
29 When they’re humbled, you will say: “Cheer up;
God will rescue the lowly.
30 He will deliver the guilty;
they will be saved by your pure hands.”
Job 22
Tree of Life Version
Eliphaz Keeps Pointing at Sin
22 Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded saying:
2 “Can a man be useful to God?
Can even a wise man benefit Him?
3 What pleasure is it to Shaddai if you are righteous?
Or what gain if your ways are blameless?
4 Is it because of your reverence that He corrects you
and He brings judgment against you?
5 Is not your wickedness great,
and is there no end to your iniquity?
6 For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason;
you stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 You gave the weary no water to drink
and from the hungry you withhold bread,
8 Though you were a mighty man, owning land—
an honored man living on it.
9 You sent widows away empty-handed
and crushed the arms of orphans.
10 “That is why snares surround you,
and why sudden fear terrifies you,
11 or why it is so dark that you cannot see.
and why a flood of water covers you.
12 “Is not God in the heights of heaven?
And see the lofty stars how high they are?
13 Yet you say, ‘What does God know?
Does He judge through such thick darkness?
14 Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see,
as He walks in the vault of heaven.’
15 Will you keep to the old way
that wicked men have trod?
16 They were snatched away before their time,
their foundations washed away by a river.
17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
What can Shaddai do to us?’
18 Yet He filled their houses with good things—
but the counsel of the wicked is far from me!
19 The righteous see and rejoice;
the innocent mock them, saying,
20 ‘Surely our foes are cut off,
and fire consumes their abundance.’
21 “Reconcile now with Him and have shalom—
in this way prosperity will come to you.
22 Accept instruction from His mouth
and store up His words in your heart.
23 If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored;
if you remove iniquity far from your tent
24 and throw your gold in the dust,
and the gold of Ophir to the rocks in the wadis,
25 then Shaddai will be your gold
and your precious silver.
26 Surely then Shaddai will be your delight
and you will lift up your face to God.
27 You will pray to Him and He will hear you,
and you will fulfill your vows.
28 What you decide will be done,
and light will shine on your ways.
29 When people are brought low, and you say, ‘Lift them up!’
then He will save the downcast.
30 He will deliver even one who is not innocent,
who will be delivered by the cleanness of your hands.”
Chinese New Version (CNV). Copyright © 1976, 1992, 1999, 2001, 2005 by Worldwide Bible Society.
Copyright © 2011 by Common English Bible
Tree of Life (TLV) Translation of the Bible. Copyright © 2015 by The Messianic Jewish Family Bible Society.